Question

I’m trying to increment a sequence in sqlite3.

Basically, I’m using the sequence as a key into another system, and I have multiple DB’s which are generating conflicts.

i.e. I have 2 DB’s both creating entries with the same sequence number. They both create a 15, which I use as a key to another system.

I’d like to advance one of the DB’s sequences by, say 10 000, so that I stop getting conflicts.

Disclaimer: before you start jumping all over me, I know this is not a good design, and it’s only being used for early prototyping. I plan to ‘upgrade’ to using a UUID generated from the sequence and timestamp as my key in the future. However, until I’m out of ‘demo mode’ I just want to fix my problem with a line of SQL if I can.

I’ve tried update sqlite_sequence set seq = 2000 where name = 'XXXX'; but it doesn’t seem to do the trick. I’m new to sqlite3, maybe it’s something else?

Answer 1

So, not sure what I was doing wrong before, but the code I originally put in my question is working for me now.

update sqlite_sequence set seq = 2000 where name = 'XXXX';