Handle DUP_VAL_ON_INDEX exception in your trigger and loop (get sequence.NEXTVAL) untill there is no exception. BUT, The bigger question: is there a valid "business" reason to allow "manually created" IDs when you have a sequnce to generate those? I think, the problem is in your design. Igor Neyman, OCP DBA ineyman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kean Jacinta Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 10:20 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: TRIGGERS HI, :P oh i see . I am so blur. My concern, ID --- 1 <-- autogenerated 2 <-- autogenerated 3 <-- autogenerated 4 <-- manually created 5 <-- manually created My current sequence stay at : 3 , if i issued an autotgenerated insert again it will surely prompt unique id alrdy existed... or some sort of database error. How can then trigger being smart enough to silently generate autoid 6 without raising error ? I am very close to my objectives alrdy :P Thank in advance Jkean --- david wendelken <davewendelken@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Kean, > > The code I sent you was designed to handle both > these situations. > > if inserting then > if :new.id is null then > select myclassseq.nextval into :new.id from > dual; > end if; > end if; > > If the id is null, you need to get the next value > from the sequence. > Otherwise, do nothing special, it already has a > value. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kean Jacinta <jacintakean@xxxxxxxxx> > Sent: May 18, 2005 7:16 AM > To: Vitalis Jerome <vitalisman@xxxxxxxxx>, > oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: TRIGGERS > > Hi ; > > This is what i have achieved so far > > 1) insert into myclass (name,type) values (good, 8); > The Trigger will auto insert increment id into > myclass > table. > > id name type > -- ------ ---- > 1 good 8' > > I manage to make it work thank to everyone here in > this forum. > > > 2) Now on the same table myclass, i want to be able > to > insert the id manually as well. > > insert into myclass(id,name,type) values (4,bad,8); > > My objectives by the end of the day , is the myclass > table is able to support auto generate seq no and > it's > also able to accept manual id inserted as well. Can > it be done ? And how to do it ? So that once the > trigger detected is manual id inserted it will then > insert d id without running d myclass_seq. If the > manual id provided has is alrdy existed in database > then prompt error message to user. If the autonumber > sequnce detected the id existed in the database then > it will quitely skip d number and take nextval until > a > unique value is found. > > Oh you can understand what i am trying to explain > here. > > THANK YOU > > JK > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l