ORA-08004 Solution?

Question

Please let me know how to resolve ORA-08004? its basically giving me an exception of seq value exceded & i dont know how to get and change specified sequence value
Please tell me the query also let me know how to change specified sequence value
Thanks,
Waheed.

Answer 1

SQL> create sequence seq1 maxvalue 2;
Sequence created.
SQL> select seq1.nextval from dual;
   NEXTVAL
         1
SQL> /
   NEXTVAL
         2
SQL> /
select seq1.nextval from dual
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-08004: sequence SEQ1.NEXTVAL exceeds MAXVALUE and cannot be instantiated
SQL> alter sequence seq1 maxvalue 100;
Sequence altered.
SQL> select seq1.nextval from dual;
   NEXTVAL
         3
SQL> /
   NEXTVAL
         4
SQL>To see actual sequence max value you can do :
SQL> select max_value from user_sequences
  2  where sequence_name = 'SEQ1';
MAX_VALUE
       100
SQL>of course change SEQ1 with your sequence name.