Re: dropped sequence - backup/recovery question

[Daniel W. Fink]

Jacques,
    If you know the field that is being populated by the sequence, examine the last 25/50 entries, determine the pattern and 'high' value, then recreate the sequence accordingly.
    If you don't know the field, you can take a guess that it is the primary key (or perhaps another unique value).

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Jacques Kilchoer wrote:

The question from Janardhana Babu Donga yesterday about how to recreate a dropped package/procedure/function made me think about something else. Imagine the following scenario:

There is some commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software package running against my database. The software package uses sequences. Someone drops a sequence by mistake and later on jobs start failing right and left. I don't know exactly how the sequence is used so I don't know what start value to create it with if I did recreate it myself.

I guess I would have to do a point-in-time recovery in another location until just before the sequence was dropped, but that seems like a lot of work for just a sequence. Are there any more clever ways