January 2012
Intermediate to advanced
542 pages
11h 28m
English
In this recipe, we continue to explore ways to reduce the number of requests made to the database, illustrating how the use of sequences can help us in achieving this as well as improved database scalability.
Sequences are used to assign a sequential number—unique until the sequence is recreated or reinitialized. In many non-Oracle databases, there are tools that allow developers to automatically assign a sequential number to a field—often the primary key—the so-called autoinc fields (Microsoft® SQL Server® and IBM® DB2® can define a field IDENTITY, MySQL™ has the AUTO_INCREMENT attribute, and so on).
Oracle database doesn't have a specific IDENTITY field, to achieve the same result ...
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