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Will a sequence fill in gaps?

edited Aug 5, 2015 10:05AM in Database Administration (MOSC) 4 commentsAnswered

Background:

I have an existing field in a table, not the PK, which contains numbers, that were generated by a different system.  Customer has asked for my system to take over the generation of the numbers using a sequence.  There are gaps between the MIN_VALUE and MAX_VALUE that I have input into the sequence.


Actions I took:

I created the sequence using a min value and a max value and then set the LAST_NUMBER initially to be one greater than the highest number in the sequence.


Behavior I am seeing:

I am now seeing that the sequence appears to be attempting to fill in the gaps.

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