Re: Simple Datatype Question

From: TurkBear <johng_at_nospam.mm.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 21:17:01 GMT
Message-ID: <3613f101.16002610@news2.mm.com>

"Rob McElroy" <RobbieLee_at_Worldnet.att.net> wrote:

>Is their a field datatype in Oracle that is similar to Access's AutoNumber
>Datatype or SQL Servers Identity datatype?
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>What I want is a field that generates a unique number for each new record.
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>I realize this is an easy question, bear with me, I am learning the workings
>of Oracle.
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>Thanks for your time!
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You'll want to use an Oracle Sequence - check your docs for details on usage...

To reply please remove the 'nospam' part of the address Received on Thu Oct 01 1998 - 16:17:01 CDT