How can we manage the gap in a primary key column created
by a sequence?
Ex:a company has empno as primary key generated by a
sequence and some employees leaves in between.What is the
best way to manage this gap?
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Answer Posted / poornima
using cursor we find the gap in sequence, but this method
is quite complicated and slow process...
so we use some analyical fuctions such as lead and lag as
{LEAD | LAG} (value_expression, offset, default)
OVER ([PARTITION BY expr] ORDER BY expr)
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