Question

I am working with hibernate, and a oracle 10 db. I need to get the next sequence value from a table, and want to know how.
I saw this article, and asking: is there a better way the get the value, without defining a query?

Thanks!

Answer 1

No. Getting the next (nextval) or current (currval) value from a sequence is typically done using a select. Even in PLSQL, SELECT INTO is used, like this:

SELECT YourSequence.NextVal INTO :new.ID FROM DUAL;

Simple assignment like this won’t work:

:new.ID := YourSeqence.NextVal;