On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Jason Clifford wrote: > In the case where an application is written poorly so that it grabs the > sequence number and spends time on $OTHER_TASK before performing the > actual insert other database clients will suffer delays wont they or does > the method used allow breaks in the sequence?
I'll get my coat - a quick check of the FAQ informs me that sequence breaks are indeed the solution used for this. For some applications that would be a bad thing but not that many I suppose. Jason Clifford -- UKFSN.ORG Finance Free Software while you surf the 'net http://www.ukfsn.org/ Sign up now
