http://benzilla.galbraiths.org/2007/03/13/oracle-versus-usability/ Ben is Vice President of Mobile Engineering at Walmart.com, where he works closely with his long-time friend Dion Almaer. Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:56:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://benzilla.galbraiths.org/2007/03/13/oracle-versus-usability/#comment-2663 Tue, 13 Mar 2007 21:00:36 +0000 http://galbraiths.org/blog/2007/03/13/oracle-versus-usability/#comment-2663 True, I guess that I’ve been spoiled by PostgreSQL providing a SERIAL data type that does all the work of setting up the sequence for you.

]]> http://benzilla.galbraiths.org/2007/03/13/oracle-versus-usability/#comment-2662 Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:11:37 +0000 http://galbraiths.org/blog/2007/03/13/oracle-versus-usability/#comment-2662 Joseph: Sure, sequences are the answer, I just am amazed that you have to create the sequence and then create the trigger instead of just saying the type is “AUTO_INCREMENT_LONG” or something user-friendly. I didn’t care about this eight years ago, but now its lack of inclusion is bizarre and sad.

]]> http://benzilla.galbraiths.org/2007/03/13/oracle-versus-usability/#comment-2661 Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:07:21 +0000 http://galbraiths.org/blog/2007/03/13/oracle-versus-usability/#comment-2661 I’m often amazed at how slow the commercial database vendors are to adopting features. While there is no auto-incrementing type in Oracle, using sequences will do basically the same thing. Don’t know what to tell on the boolean issue, just lame.

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