RE: Counting number of rows, sequences

From: Mark Leith <mark_at_cool-tools.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 09:15:41 -0000
Message-ID: <000601c3f5ff$c7fbf630$04fea8c0@mark>

And what happens when any rows get deleted? ;)

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Jan Pruner Sent: 17 February 2004 22:31
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Re: Counting number of rows, sequences

Sorry to say it, but this is not a good idea. Sequence doesn't rollback in case the transaction is not commited. And CURRVAL is local to user session. "Note that before you use CURRVAL for a sequence in your session, you
must first initialize the sequence with NEXTVAL."

JP

Juan Cachito Reyes Pacheco wrote:

> The other choice if you have to frecuently do counts to that table is
> a sequence
>
> You create an addiatoinal field with a sequence
>
> CREATE SEQUENCE, etc.
>
> row sequence
>
> 1 1
> 2 2
> ....
> 1234 1234

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