There are other triggers, but none which have the string 'num' in them. I also tried a -- select a.trigger_name, a.* FROM all_triggers a, all_triggers b WHERE a.trigger_name = b.trigger_name AND a.table_owner = b.owner AND lower(b.table_name) LIKE 'foo' or lower(b.description) like '%foo%'; -- to check if any other trigger points to the table maybe - where there could be better ways to check these, I suppose. ...and this select(max)...was only to demonstrate that this had been done one time, yes Regards, A. Stiebing ________________________________ Von: chet justice [mailto:chet.justice@xxxxxxxxx] Gesendet: Dienstag, 2. Februar 2010 14:45 An: toon.koppelaars@xxxxxxxxxxx Cc: stiebing; oracle-l Betreff: Re: Constraint violation in spite of trigger with sequence 100% positive there is no other trigger on the table? On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Toon Koppelaars <toon.koppelaars@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: I assume you are showing us the 'select max(...' + the 'create sequence' command because you have done that once. Or are you doing this inside some process, *every time*? In the latter case. It could very well be that between the 'select max' and the 'get nextval' some other session had been adding a row to that table, with a value that now also is generated by the sequence. On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:09 AM, A. Stiebing <stiebing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi all, hopefully someone can give me a hint in the correct direction regarding a constraint problem: In spite of we got an trigger with a sequence to update an unique id key on insert, we get constraint violations from time to time. Where could the cause be for that? Oracle 9 -- select max(num) from auft; -- -> 52013 create sequence s_po_number NOMAXVALUE increment by 1 start with 52014 cache 20 noorder nocycle; trigger TI_AUFT before insert on AUFT referencing old as old new as new for each row begin -- (...) select s_po_number.nextval into :new.num from dual; if(:new.creationdate is null and :new.createdby is null) then -- (...) end; -- Best regards A. Stiebing -- Toon Koppelaars RuleGen BV Toon.Koppelaars@xxxxxxxxxxx www.RuleGen.com TheHelsinkiDeclaration.blogspot.com (co)Author: "Applied Mathematics for Database Professionals" www.RuleGen.com/pls/apex/f?p=14265:13 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l