What is a Sequence ?

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What is a Sequence ?..

Answer / kumar

Sequence is used for number generation.

We can create a sequence and cannot update a sequence
directly.

After creating a sequence we ca use functions nextval,
currval and setval to operate on the sequence.

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What is a Sequence ?..

Answer / s. senthil kumar

A sequence generates a serial list of unique numbers for
numerical columns of a database's tables.

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What is a Sequence ?..

Answer / guest

Sequence is used to provide unique values to database
object.

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