Wolfgang Weisselberg writes:
 > On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 14:36:19 -0600, Stephen Clouse wrote:
 > 
 > > A common way of leveraging this in Oracle is for atomic check-and-insert 
 > > operations using a primary key.  Visualize two transactions writing some 
 > > unique rows to a table.  
 > 
 > I thought that was why you use sequences...

Sure.

But there are valid reasons for having additional unique indexes or
constraints. 

Michael
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