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Posted to derby-user@db.apache.org by Panayiotis Vlissidis <pv...@yahoo.com> on 2006/04/29 20:08:38 UTC

Are Sequences(Generators) supported?

Hello all. 

I just found out about Derby(Java DB) and I was wondering if there is any support for 
sequences(generators) for automatic generation of a unique number?

Thanks in advance.

Panayiotis Vlissidis

		
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Re: Are Sequences(Generators) supported?

Posted by "Jean T. Anderson" <jt...@bristowhill.com>.

Panayiotis Vlissidis wrote:
> Hello all. 
> 
> I just found out about Derby(Java DB) and I was wondering if there is any support for 
> sequences(generators) for automatic generation of a unique number?


Derby supports automatically generated "identity" columns.  More
information is here:

http://db.apache.org/derby/faq.html#identity

regards,

 -jean