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resetting sequence

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"Kancha ."
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My sequence starts from 1 and after few months it
should be reset to 1 again. Can this be automated ??

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Re: resetting sequence

From
Philip Hallstrom
Date:
take a look at the SETVAL function... it's something close to:

SELECT SETVAL('sequence_name', 1);

something like that.  check the manual.

On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Kancha . wrote:

> My sequence starts from 1 and after few months it
> should be reset to 1 again. Can this be automated ??
>
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Re: resetting sequence

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"Andrew G. Hammond"
Date:
It also looks like you might want to check out the unix cron utility.
From your shell prompt, try
man crontab

On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 09:30:10PM -0800, Philip Hallstrom wrote:
> take a look at the SETVAL function... it's something close to:
>
> SELECT SETVAL('sequence_name', 1);
>
> something like that.  check the manual.
>
> On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Kancha . wrote:
>
> > My sequence starts from 1 and after few months it
> > should be reset to 1 again. Can this be automated ??
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Re: resetting sequence

From
"David Stanaway"
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----- Original Message -----
From: Kancha . <kancha2np@yahoo.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 8:30 PM
Subject: [SQL] resetting sequence


> My sequence starts from 1 and after few months it
> should be reset to 1 again. Can this be automated ??


If the use of the sequence is predictable, you may want to alter the CYCLE
and MAXVALUE options in the seqence creation.

EG:

CREATE SEQUENCE foo MAXVALUE 3000 CYCLE;