How can I treat a sequence value like a generated key?
- by Jeff Knecht
Here is my situation and my constraints:
I am using Java 5, JDBC, and DB2 9.5
My database table contains a BIGINT value which represents the primary key. For various reasons that are too complicated to go into here, the way I insert records into the table is by executing an insert against a VIEW; an INSTEAD OF trigger retrieves the NEXT_VAL from a SEQUENCE and performs the INSERT into the target table.
I can change the triggers, but I cannot change the underlying table or the general approach of inserting through the view.
I want to retrieve the sequence value from JDBC as if it were a generated key.
Question: How can I get access to the value pulled from the SEQUENCE. Is there some message I can fire within DB2 to float this sequence value back to the JDBC driver?