Inserting into Oracle and retrieving the generated sequence ID

Question

I have a handful of raw SQL queries for SQL Server which use SCOPE_IDENTITY to retrieve the generated ID for a specific INSERT immediately after that INSERT occurs all in on

Answer 1

There are no auto incrementing features in Oracle for a column. You need to create a SEQUENCE object. You can use the sequence like:

insert into table(batch_id, ...) values(my_sequence.nextval, ...)

...to return the next number. To find out the last created sequence nr (in your session), you would use:

my_sequence.currval

This site has several complete examples on how to use sequences.