How to create a sequence in oracle forms6i

Question

Oracle forms 6i
Hai All
I am working in leave application entry so i need to create a sequence for giving a unique number for each entry
Pls tell me the steps how to created and how to call the sequence from database
Thanks in Advance
Srikkanth.m

Answer 1

Hi,
Create sequence <sequence_name>
Start with <number>
increment by <number>
in database
eg:- create sequence test_seq
start with 1
increment by 1;
in forms
you can assign value in pre-insert trigger
Declare
cursor cur_seq is
select test_seq.nextval from dual;
begin
open cur_seq;
fetch cur_seq into :item_key ; /* :item_key give name of ur primary key field*/
close cur_seq;
end;