On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 11:02:25 -0600, Knight, Jon <jknight@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks to everyone for the suggestions. And, Jared ... I guess I should > give him a break, but I can only pay $1.99 per week. > > We discovered that the application code already checks for an existing > record with the same sequence before inserts, so we've just recreated the > sequence with a sufficiently low starting value to fill in the gaps. > > Thanks, > Jon Oh, that's no fun! I wanted to see how the suggestions ended up working in production. Negative numbers really tickled my funnybone. "What do you mean I'm customer negative 50832?!?" Steven ps I hate forgetting to "reply all". -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l