Old manual's

Why is it impossible to download or even view copies of the manuals relating to older or 'dated' devices.?
I have recently acquired an MSI CD-R/RW Drive - model No: CR48-A (MS-8348A) - from a friend who has updated his old system... It has come with no cables or connection wiring at all, only the ports at the rear of the device.! Is this normal can it work without or with replacements... if so where would i obtain these replacements..?
But most importantly and more distressing is the fact that it has also arrived without any driver/installation/software and without any operations/set-up manual or installation instructions..!!! this means a humble private home user like myself, with very little computer knowledge or understanding is left in total darkness not knowing where to even begin.. Unless i obtain the relevant manual, installation instructions and necessary model specific Driver software... I am left with a fully working, highly technical and highly expensive piece of equipment that is nothing but useless desk fodder... i am desperate to find the relevant manual and installation/fitting instruction's...thought the web site would be the answer... alas only new and up-to-date models are catered for with, downloadable, replacement manuals available...while the dated older models are listed, described and pictured with downloads of each individual driver also available.. their relevant instruction manuals for installation, set-up and usage, however, are painfully unavailable... please reconsider the availability of these items, they are vital to people like myself who are hopelessly and wastefully lost without them... Please help Me.!
with desperate sincerity and humble apologies
D. Wilkinson

Does your friend buy the OEM version of the drive, if so, you and the friend cannot complain. If not, ask the seller to give them back as the seller is a con.

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Fingerprint Reader access to KeePass (from a Thinkpad with Password Manager)

The goal: secure, convenient, automated login to password-protected sites
KeyPass is a great open-source program for secure creation, storage and use of login passwords and other information. With a plugin called KeeForm, it allows very convenient automatic login to password-protected sites by clicking on a KeePass entry. To preclude unintended access to all of your secure information, it is wise to close Keepass after each use, or set Keepass to lock when minimized. But this is less convenient, because a long secure master password then has to be entered before each use of Keepass.
Using a fingerprint reader to enter Keepass can be a big time saver while retaining security. Capacitive swipe fingerprint readers can be very secure, provided they operate through equally secure software. They are available as USB units, or integrated into some keyboards and notebook computers, for example some Lenovo ThinkPads.
Unfortunately, set-up can be a challenge and there may be disadvantages even after the best workable interface between KeePass and a particular biometric system. This example uses the integrated fingerprint reader and software on a Lenovo ThinkPad X61.
The problem: getting secure fingerprint software to use KeePass
ThinkPads can use Lenovo fingerprint software alone for start-up into Windows, but they need additional layers of software (Client Security Solution - CSS, and Password Manager - PM) to work with other programs including KeePass. PM uses CSS security functions.
Cautions about Lenovo CSS:
1. Some organisations advise against CSS because of problems including clashes with antivirus programs. See http://www.ncsu.edu/antivirus/lenovo/ and
http://prowiki.isc.upenn.edu/wiki/ThinkVantage_Software_Under_Windows_Vista
These bugs may have been fixed over time - but install at your own risk!
2. CSS and PM introduce their own system overheads which may slow some operations.
3. Once tried, CSS may not simply be inactivated while restoring basic fingerprint start-up into Windows. The X61 at least insists that CSS be reactivated for any fingerprint function. If you try a Windows system restore to a time before CSS was first activated, you may experience the ‘blue screen of death'. The security chip evidently regards your desire for a past configuration as a security breach. With luck you may ‘live again' if you can log into Windows in Safe Mode to undo the attempted system restore. After that, I reactivated CSS. I was not game to try uninstall after inactivation of CSS - but see the ncsu link above.
Having decided to accept the ‘risks' of activating CSS and PM, you may want to try PM for all password management. For me it would not recognise some internet logins, could not complete auto-submission in others, and did not allow the manual adjustments that make KeePass so versatile. Unfortunately PM help is very limited. There is no current user manual (old manuals up to v1.4 available on the web do not match the properties of the current v3 of the software). KeePass (or the KeeForm plugin) also struggles with some sites, but it works much better overall. Help on KeeForm plugin syntax is limited, but otherwise KeePass help is great.
So we really want the fingerprint reader (via PM) to work for KeePass master password entry.
This is not so simple for five interacting reasons:
(i) It is tricky to register KeePass in PM;
(ii) PM then gets confused by ‘hidden' entry of a master password during fingerprint login to KeePass, and repeatedly tries to save ****** as a changed master password;
(iii) PM also tries to automatically register each entry opened for editing within KeePass;
(iv) PM tries to automatically register other logins even if they are managed through KeePass.
(v) Your KeePass records are now only as secure as your PM login (which is likely to be your Windows login).
The solutions: or workarounds at least
The best workarounds I could develop for these five issues were:
(i) To register KeePass in PM, first ensure that PM is running (icon in the system tray). Then launch KeePass, click the login window box for unobscured password display (three blue dots turn black), enter the master password and click OK to start KeePass as usual.
If PM does not offer to save an entry for KeePass by this stage, try ‘plan B'. Open a window to edit an entry in KeePass, then click Cancel. PM seems to recognise this more readily as a login window and may offer to create an entry. Accept the offer, and name the entry KeePass. Then open PM to edit the saved entry. You will have to edit several fields to achieve an effective PM entry for KeePass:
The title field must be "Open database - database.kdb", to match the title of the KeePass login window.
The file name field should show the full path to KeePass.exe (something like C:\Program Files\KeePass\PeePass.exe depending on your installation).
The login and password data field is accessed by double clicking the entry. It will need to show only your KeePass master password (in the unobscured text view). In login and password data, delete each line of unwanted text until you get to the final password line (shown as *****), and edit this line to provide your master password.
In the Advanced tab, select auto-fill and auto-submit and the desired security level [see (v) below]. Then select OK to get to the PM front window, and File - Save Changes, then Exit.
Now when you close and re-launch KeePass, PM should automatically intervene (requesting a fingerprint to complete the KeePass login if you selected that security level. Select ‘No' when PM asks to change the password [see (ii) below].
If you had no luck, try ‘plan C'. Close KeePass completely, then launch it again to open the login window. Then right-click the PM icon in the system tray, open the ‘Type and Transfer Tool', click the box for unobscured password display, type in the KeePass master password, drag the cross-hairs to the password field in the waiting KeePass login window, and release the password there. Click OK to start KeePass as usual, then click OK to close the PM transfer window. If there is still no KeePass entry in PM, check that KeePass has not been included in the PM excluded programs list. If this sequence does not work, reboot and check again. Failing all else, any entry that PM succeeds in making from any login page can be edited to an effective KeePass entry by editing fields as described above for ‘plan B'.
PM (v3.00) can be coy to associate initially, but it will accept KeePass (v1.14) as a password-managed program, and thereafter it reliably succeeds to auto-submit the KeePass login after some help described in (ii) below.
(ii) Having sent the correct master password to the KeePass login window, PM becomes confused by the ‘hidden' text now in the password field, and offers to change its record of your KeyPass master password to ******. You can manually select ‘No' in the PM changed-password dialogue box that appears every time you use PM / fingerprint for KeePass login. But Beware: if you ever accidentally select ‘Yes' (the default) your KeePass master password record in PM will be changed to ******. This can be edited to provide the correct password again, but it is more than a minor pain in the AR5E. Unless you know (or have a backup of) your KeePass master password you just lost access to your KeePass database!
To avoid this big nuisance and risk, you can set up to restart KeePass for each use from a desktop shortcut (instead of minimising it to the system tray) and have the shortcut run a batch file with vbs scripts that send the ‘No' message to PM automatically.
Here is an example batch file, with corresponding vbs scripts. You can make all these files using Notepad and save the files with the names indicated, into the KeePass program directory (C:\Program Files\KeePass in this example).
KeePass.bat (This launches KeePass and tells PM v3 not to change the password. Caution: If Lenovo changed PM program design in future, the effect could change; the batch file might send {TAB}{ENTER} keystrokes to another open window on your computer):
C:
cd\
cd "C:\Program Files\KeePass"
start " " "C:\Program Files\KeePass\KeePass.exe" "C:\Program Files\KeePass\Database.kdb"
start /w Sleep.vbs 1
start /w AppActivate.vbs
start /w SendKeys.vbs
Sleep.vbs (provides a short delay to open the ThinkVantage dialogue window, otherwise the following scripts fail because they are sent too soon):
Wscript.Sleep Wscript.Arguments(0) * 1000
AppActivate.vbs (puts focus on the ThinkVantage Password change dialogue window so that Tab and Enter commands are not sent elsewhere with undesired effects):
CreateObject("WScript.Shell").AppActivate "ThinkVantage Password Manager"
SendKeys.vbs (sends a ‘No' response to the PM request to change its KeePass entry):
CreateObject("WScript.Shell").SendKeys "{TAB}{ENTER}"
Please substitute ) where you see smileywink: in the vbs scripts above - I can't get this forum window to stop automatically translating the " ) sequence of text (without a space) as an emoticon.
This batch file approach should work with additional startup switches for KeePass, for example the /backup.path: switch used by ‘another backup' plugin (or you can use the db_backup plugin that works from the KeePass.ini file). Quotes are needed around any entry with spaces. But some things that ‘should work' such as just writing "KeePass.exe" instead of the full path in line 4 of the batch file do not give the same outcome for me. This may be an effect on timing of the switch of focus between windows - so if you strike a problem it may be worth experimenting with the delay time set through the sleep script.
If you set KeePass to lock when minimised, you will have to deal manually with the PM changed-password dialogue every time you re-access KeePass. So it is simpler to close rather than minimise KeePass after each use and restart it when needed, via the batch file.
(iii) You have to tell PM ‘No' whenever it offers to save an entry that is edited in KeePass. This is less of a nuisance, because entries rarely need to be edited once set up in Keepass. There is no way to turn off this requirement. If you select ‘Never' it will prevent use of PM and therefore fingerprint entry to start KeePass (not just the edit window).
(iv) Turn off internet login within PM. This will leave all internet logins to KeePass. Unfortunately you can not set PM to only allow a single program login (KeePass), but you can set it to exclude specific programs, so do that for other programs that you access via KeePass.
(v) Finally, set PM security within CSS so that a fingerprint (or a password if the fingerprint reader fails) is needed every time PM is launched (not just once per boot). Similarly, set KeePass security this way within PM. Otherwise (if you set the requirement to once per boot) your passwords are open to inspection while you are away from your booted computer.
Caution: How secure is your Windows login password? Most likely this is also your PM login password, so it now allows access to your KeePass database! Make sure that it is a unique, secure and preferably memorable password.
How close are we now to the desired combination of security and convenience?
Click on the KeePass shortcut to the batch file given above, swipe the fingerprint, wait while CSS works, then click on the relevant Keepass entry to access any password-protected site or application in your Keypass list - great convenience.
Security is very strong - both KeePass and PM are extremely secure unless you use a weak or insecure master password or select less secure settings.
Starting (or opening a locked instance of) KeePass without the batch file given above requires a couple of extra carefully-placed clicks in the process to tell PM not to mess up its entry for KeePass, then to complete KeePass startup. This is less convenient, and a mistake could prevent future database access - so the batch file method is recommended.
A final caution (while enjoying secure & convenient logins):
Beware - fingerprint access is so convenient that you may forget your master passwords! Eventually they will be needed! You may click the wrong button in PM, suffer a faulty fingerprint reader or change computers! Then you must recall your master passwords before you can access your password file (and possibly your computer). This could be devastating: loss of all secure password information in KeePass and PM (and possibly loss of all information on a protected computer drive, not to mention need to pay for a computer motherboard and HDD replacement). So:
1. Choose very secure but ‘unforgettable' master passwords for KeePass and computer (PM) access.
2. Always set up a secure master password as an alternative to biometric authentication (in case of a faulty fingerprint reader).
3. Keep your password database backups, and your separate master password backups, in another secure (preferably encrypted) but accessible location!
Program versions tested:
KeePass v1.14 (v2 betas not tested) with KeeForm v2 and DB_Backup v1.14
Lenovo CSS v8.20 with PM v3.00
The solutions were tested in November 2008 on a Thinkpad X61 running Windows Vista Business. The tricks to interface with KeePass can vary between fingerprint programs (search the KeePass forum).
Message Edited by r_g_b on 11-03-2008 07:01 PM
Message Edited by r_g_b on 11-04-2008 12:00 AM

I'm reviving quite an old topic here, but I have been unable to find any other good information on this. I currently use the latest version of Keepass v2.23 and have Lenovo Passoword Manager v4.3 installed on my new W530 laptop. I can't get PM to recognize any passowords at all, in web browsers or in windows application.
In PM the only thing I can do is create folders and secure notes. My fingerprint software works great for automated logins to windows. Does anyone have any experience with using the fingerprint reader with a windows application like Keepass?
How can I get the Password manager to do ... anything? Recognize a password in windows or a web browser?
I'm open to any other software to be used or I can write scripts if necessary to accomplish this. It doesn't seem like this should be so difficult, but from what I've learned about Lenovo so far, is that nothing is easy. After trying to get battery charge thresholds working proplery in Windows 8, I've already lost faith in a company that I thought had a great reputation.

How do i reposition the timeline to the left margin?

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I have a wedding to edit. Three cameras, three audio tracks on the cameras plus the church PA audio and a Roderick recording from a mic work by the groom. I would like to choose an audio track and sync the video to that - but I learned last time that is not possible (or not easy).
I looked at multicam sync clips but I can't see how I can use this to fit my workflow - it requires too many decisions up front and I don't have small clips - I have two 1hr "clips" and some smaller ones from the handheld camera. I don't want to chop up the "master" clip and I can't see how to easily sync everything together in such a way that I can see it all.   Yes I see that I can choose different angles in a different editor, but I don't want to get into that at this stage - I just want to see all my material in a timeline so I can make major edit decisions first. Oh I wish I had not thrown out FCP 10...
So what I want to do this morning is just drop clips into the timeline from the main camera, chop it up and remove the bits of the ceremony that I don't want in the final video and then choose clips from the other cameras to replace the main camera.
So, I drop a clip in the timeline. Its the warmup to the wedding. People are sitting down. The organ is playing. I don't want this in this timelines. So I trim the clip from left to where I want it to start. Great. Except...
... the timeline now starts halfway across the display and I have a blank black box to the left. I cannot, for the life of me, see how to move the start of the clip back to the left margin. Nor can I imagine why anyone at Apple thinks this is a useful thing to do?
In between all of this I have the usual Yosemite instability issues and, for whatever reason, Preview keeps crashing so using the FCP User Guide is more or less impossible.
Any clues?
And don't say use Resolve on Windows instead. I don't need much persuasion, and I hate Windows.

I don't agree with you here. Resolve is much easier to use - I don't have to try and get into the heads of the developers and its is easy to see how my material slots into the editor.
I am still trying to get my head around the way FCP organises the material. Events/Projects? What are they thinking here? How does this fit into a wedding video? I can create meaningful "events" (wedding/photoshoot/reception) etc but why would I?. Is a "project" just a timeline - a "sequence" in normal film editors? Why not call it that then? I cannot figure out what kind of environment Apple were imagining when they came up with this way of organising things? They must have had some kind of job in mind where events and projects make sense. The manual is silent on where the clips actually go - are they organised within events? within projects" or within both? Whatever it is, it might be easier to understand what FCP is doing if Apple explained what this structure means and why they have adopted it. I am left to guess.
What I can't seem to get rid of is the groups (I have no idea what else to call them) which are just a date and under which my clips appear. I don't want this hierarchy but I can't see how to get rid of it...   Clips that should be together, but were filmed on different dates, are in different places - and I cannot see how to group them together without these dates imposing another level of hierarchy, I struggled through the last couple of videos not really understanding where my clips were and ended up with multiple copies all over the place. Right now I don't know if I have all my footage in the library or not - its so hard to construct a meaningful organisation in this crazy interface. I just deleted 8 copies of a lapel mic audio track - I have no idea how I got 8 copies of that into this library. Does FCP just import duplicates without warning? Its so hard to correlate what is in the library with my folder structure on disk...
To my mind, this is one project - a wedding video. And this video will include multiple sequences. But my clips need to be ordered in such a away that makes sense to me - I am not sure how to do that in FCP, but its easy in file manager. The clips were shot in various locations on multiple occasions. But this has nothing to do with the finished product, which will have its own order of things, not necessarily related to the order of shooting. In FCP (or Resolve) I would have the clips in bins and my various sequences which I could then assemble.   Now I guess these are projects? They aren't "projects" at all - at least to in my mind. I don't like having to think about this project (the wedding video) in some weird way which only makes sense to the FCP developers. Maybe they never filmed a wedding!
Thanks for the advice re multicam clips. I came to the same conclusion but there is an awful lot of stuff to synchronise and I am not confident that FCP will do this in one go. But now I have to learn and get familiar with the different editing environment for multicam clips. Oh joy! I am hoping I can add more clips to a multicam clip afterwards - once I sort out how to get my footage into some meaningful structure without all these surplus dates... The clips have been imported so that the file structure creates keywords - which would be ok, perhaps, except for this extra date-related hierarchy which means I have to keep expanding the tabs to see the clips.
As for Synchronised clips, if you read the user guide there is nothing to warn you that this is an audio-only sync. Or which video track you are going to end up with. "For example, if you select two video clips and three audio clips from different sources that were all recorded during the same take, Final Cut Pro automatically analyzes and syncs the clips together into a new clip in the Browser." Perhaps, when they wrote this manual, they were thinking this would create a multicam clip. Or maybe its an old manual - I don't suppose they get updated automatically. Maybe I better go look to see if there is a newer version on Apple's website.
I seem to spend a lot of my time undoing the default settings in FCP. I don't want my footage disappearing into an impenetrable amorphous mass in some hidden library somewhere, so I have to remember to change that default - the wording in the inspector is not very clear and sometimes I find that it is importing the material into its library and creating another copy. I generally only notice when my backup software suddenly starts copying gigabytes of data to tape...
I don't want to see my footage an in iMovie layout with no tracks either. Especially my audio tracks, so I always have to unpack them. I miss the little buttons to turn off different audio tracks - yes I know there is another way to do this, but its not obvious (as with everything else in this software) and means fumbling around in the interface to find how to do it - and its slower if you want to flip between audio tracks to decide which one to use at any given point. Its the same with synchronising clips. You expect to select the clip, right click and get a sync option. But its in a separate menu under Clip. Why? If you want to copy a clip to another library its not under a clip menu - but under the file menu? Why? I think its a terrible mess - and I think that Apple introduced a level of complexity to this interface with little to show for it. I am new to Resolve. It looks complicated with all its colour wheels and stuff, but actually its very intuitive and easy to use. And its very easy to structure clips and sequences without having to spend hours trying to figure out how Apple think you should do things. if you use FCP all the time then fine - you get used to it. But is it truly a better way to work?   I like structure - it helps me to understand my material - but FCP is anti-structure and forces a virtual schema on its users. If you like that, well and good - but it shouldn't be compulsory.
I got my head around using keywords - but I hate it - its just extra work for me and I hate the loss of the direct relationship with my material. Its very hard to see whether I have used all the material or not and how it all fits together. Now I have duplicated stuff everywhere and lots of things missing - but no real organisation. And I have to remember how I keyworded clips to find them - not easy in a big project. And since I have lots of big clips I have to remember not to change the I/O points without first saving the subclip and assigning a keyword. Extra work and easy to stuff up. Its a problem too if you edit a subclass without realising it is just a virtual clip so every instance will be edited. Sometimes thats a good thing, but not always. The issue is that this happens invisibly so you have to be very careful working with these virtual clips. Subclips are safer - you always know whats happening - and that's increasingly difficult when you have lots of subclips which are really the same material but grouped separately.
Its much the same with all Apple's software today - its all written from some other planet. I have had to take out a subscription to Office 365, use Dropbox and oneDrive instead if iCloud and download Resolve to deal with my Blackmagic camera. Its a consumer world at Apple now - and an iMovie view of the world. Apple like to hide half the functionality because they think it makes things look easy. Their manuals are useless and their online Help worse.
And yes, thanks for the Shift-Z. That works, though finding it in the manual is another matter. But why this behaviour in the first place? Is there any reason why you would want your timeline to start halfway across the screen? Why doesn't the clip just snap back to the left as it would in any other editor? Its little quirks like this that make this a very frustrating experience. I am not editing all the time - I am just as likely to be in Dreamweaver, Indesign, Illustrator or Photoshop - or working on business projects. I don't feel I should have to wade through a badly written user guide or ask basic questions in this forum every time I come back to FCP Pro X - that was never the case with the old FCP. Its just like the clock on my car - daylight saving happens here twice every year and the time has to be changed. I always need to refer to the manual. To my mind that is a crap user interface.
FCP Pro X has some nice new features. But its hard to justify this when everything else is so hard to use. Its like connected tracks. Why is that an improvement? I always start with an audio track from my master camera - because its on tape and runs for the whole take - but its impossible (or very difficult) to do this in FCP Pro X. If I have a jumble of clips and its not clear where they fit, I can't assemble them, in sequence on a separate track - I have to connect them, arbitrarily, to an existing track. And then undo that connection later. I have to rethink my workflow every time to try and fit in with FCP Pro X.
In an earlier life I was a software developer. The golden rule of applications in business was that you built your application to suit the workflow of the user. You could streamline it, but not change the sequence unless the business had made a decision to do that already. I wrote quite a few large applications for various areas of the business - I used them to make sure they worked, and I used the existing workflow. A user could come back from holidays and know immediately how to use the app to do their job. A new user could use the app without weeks of training. Its not hard to write intuitive software - but its impossible if you set out to impose a new workflow or method of organisation on a user.
Apple seem to have missed this altogether. FCP will always be a dog, for that reason alone. I have never used Avid or Premiere Pro, but I imagine no-one else has adopted Apple's upside-down way of doing things. That spells lots of training issues for anyone adopting FCP Pro X. And now since you have to work with colour grading apps, like Resolve, users have to work backwards for Apple and forwards for everyone else, in the same project.
After this project I am going to look seriously at Premiere Pro - but only if I decide I can't use Resolve on its own for everything. I have been an Apple diehard for 12 years after being a Windows guru for a decade before that. I am close to giving up on Apple. Having to buy Office was very difficult - but the Apple apps have been dumbed down (Pages) or were never up to the mark (Numbers). I can't use iCloud because it doesn't support half my material so I have Microsoft oneDrive which also goes against the grain. And I am running Yosemite which means crashes at regular intervals and reboots several times a day.
I am an Apple shareholder too. But I beginning to think they have lost the plot. I hope not.

Ssvagent.exe does not always disable next-generation Plug-In

Around half the time running the "ssvagent.exe -high -jpisetup -old" in a vbs after the jre-6u22-windows-i586.exe process stops running
the next generation Plug-In option is not disabled.
I have verified that it does not run until after the Java installtion is complete.
Running "ssvagent.exe -high -jpisetup -old" manually right after installing Java will always disable next generation Plug-In.
Any ideas why it won't always run properly from a script?
Edited by: EthanD on Sep 20, 2012 10:21 AM

Hi,
I was wrong in my approach.
My applet was implemented using the "<object>" tag and it seems that it was not the best way to address compatibility issues across all versions of the plug-in and all browsers.
So, I have finally found what I was looking for in this "[Java Rich Internet Applications Development and Deployment|http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/jweb/index.html]" guide. In this guide, it is recommended to use the "[Deployment Toolkit|http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/jweb/deployment_advice.html#deplToolkit]", based on a Javascript library containing everything needed to deploy your application as an applet or a Java Web Start application.
My application, deployed as an applet, now works like a charm.
I hope pointing on this Deployment Toolkit will also help others...
Philippe

Help needed in the query.

I have a table say T1 with a column of unique sequential numbers that begin at 1. When one inserts a new row, one muse use a sequence number that is not currently in the column. that is Fill the gaps. If there are no gaps, then and only then one can use the next highest integer in the sequence.
create table T1
( seq_nbr INTEGER NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY
CHECK (seq > 0);
junk CHAR(5) NOT NULL);
INSERT INTO T1
VALUES (1,'Tom'), (2,'Dick'), (4,'Harry'), (5,'Moe');
Here is the INSERT statement,i came across, where i am not able to understand how logic is working?
INSERT INTO T1 (seq_nbr,junk)
VALUES (CASE WHEN EXISTS -- no gaps
( SELECT 'no gaps'
FROM T1
HAVING COUNT(*) = MAX(seq_nbr))
THEN ( SELECT MAX(seq_nbr) FROM T1 ) + 1
ELSE ( SELECT MIN(seq_nbr) -- gaps
FROM T1
WHERE (seq_nbr -1)
NOT IN (SELECT seq_nbr FROM T1)
AND seq_nbr > 0) - 1, 'Jen');
the thing is i am not able to understand how this query is executing and the logic.. Can someone please explain this to me?

Hi,
this works because the first part of the CASE statement assumes there are no gaps if the number of records in the table = the max(seq_nbr) and inserts the next one up. If there are gaps then it looks for the lowest missing seq_nbr. (without testing this code I wouldn't assume it works)
Overall though this is not good practice because with high volume systems it will most likely lead to all sorts of concurrency problems. Instead you should just use a straight oracle sequence. Every time I've seen someone try to specify the requirement that a PK must be contiguous set of numbers with no gaps I've found it to be based on an individuals perverse sense of completeness or a left over from an old manual system. Usually the sequence numbers where generated from a ledger and the only way they could easily count throughput was by subtracting yesterdays closing sequence from todays. Once you point out that the database can count these things in fractions of seconds, the requirement disappears.
Andre

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