> I have a generator attached to a primary key field on a certain
> table via a BEFORE INSERT trigger. I can get sequential values from
> this generator fine, but I was wondering if there was any way (using
> generators or not) to get 'random' values from the generator that,
> while 'random', won't conflict with any of the primary key ID values
> already in the table. ....basically it amounts to generating a
> random, unrepeated sequence for my primary key (or any other unique
> field for that matter).
>
> This would be useful to me because users of the system will be
> assigned a table that cooresponds to that unique ID, and there is a
> bit more security in giving them a random 5 digit ID
> (like '35464', '97483' for the next ID, etc) instead of a sequential
> ones like '10001', '10002'... I would like the level of security
> that nonsequential IDs bring, but we don't need enough security to
> warrant the entering of a seperate PIN.
>
> Is anything like this possible? If not, I might have to go that ID,
> PIN route instead.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Robby