Re: Custom Sequence Generator

  • From: Juan Carlos Reyes Pacheco <jcdrpllist@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Abdul.Ebadi@xxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 18:13:33 -0400

I don't understand what you want
but for a session only process, you can use a package
package
 function get number
 n number :=0;



package body
 get number
 n:= n+1;

begin
 select max(column) into n from table;
end;

This is fast, I don't know what other thing you can be thinking on :)



2014-10-15 16:28 GMT-04:00 Ebadi, Abdul <Abdul.Ebadi@xxxxxxxxxx>:

>  Hi,
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> We have a need to generate a 10 or 12 digit unique key.  Anyone have a
> quick function for this?   For example: 435A24C1.
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> We don’t want to use Oracle’s sequences as we are afraid we will run out
> of unique ones.  We need billions of these keys.
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> Thanks,
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> Abdul
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