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Stephane...
Thanks for the reply.
>> SELECT sequence.nextval FROM table WHERE ROWNUM < x
>> It just seems too kludgy, and I didn't think creating a table with
>> dummy data for the count would be a good way to go. Any suggestions?
> Why 'too kludgy' ? If you are inside a PL/SQL package have you though
> of a bulk collect into an array of numbers?
It seems kludgy to me to have a table of n-rows of dummy data to grab a
specific number of values from a sequence. Is this a common practice?
Gary Chambers
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