Re: Grabbing sequence values blocks in consecutive order: Need a guaranteed method.

  • From: Alex Fatkulin <afatkulin@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: amar.padhi@xxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:40:43 -0400

> I have used this in quite a few heavy load designs and never found any 
> issues, some are running for years now.

You're playing a roulette. Proper sterilization is done using hardware
atomic instructions (like test&set) which guarantees that no two
process will be able to mess it (on which, in turn, Oracle
serialization mechanisms are relying upon).

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