Oracle/PLSQL: Sequences (Autonumber)

Ravi Nallakukkala — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 21:01:06 +0000

In Oracle, you can create an autonumber field by using sequences. A sequence is an object in Oracle that is used to generate a number sequence. This can be useful when you need to create a unique number to act as a primary key.

The syntax for a sequence is:

CREATE SEQUENCE sequence_name
MINVALUE value
MAXVALUE value
START WITH value
INCREMENT BY value
CACHE value;

For example:
CREATE SEQUENCE supplier_seq
MINVALUE 1
MAXVALUE 999999999999999999999999999
START WITH 1
INCREMENT BY 1
CACHE 20;

Now that you’ve created a sequence object to simulate an autonumber field, we’ll cover how to retrieve a value from this sequence object.

To retrieve the next value in the sequence order, you need to use nextval.
For example:supplier_seq.nextval

Limit & offset functionality in mySql, PostgreSQL

Ravi Nallakukkala — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 21:04:41 +0000

One of the excellent features provided by both my mySql & Postgre is support for Limit and offset functionality.

Usage syntax

SELECT <select_list>
    FROM <table_expression>
    [LIMIT { number | ALL }] [OFFSET number]

This is a useful feature when implementing pagination!
unfortunately this functionality is not currently being supported by Oracle!

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Oracle/PLSQL: Sequences (Autonumber)

Limit & offset functionality in mySql, PostgreSQL