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CREATE SEQUENCE .. CYCLE

Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition   ✅ Express Edition   ✅ Professional Edition   ✅ Enterprise Edition

Normally, a sequence starts at 1 and is increased to "infinity" (or rather, until it reaches its data type's MAXVALUE). In some cases, it may be useful to restart the sequence again at some MINVALUE. This can be achieved by using the CYCLE flag:

// Specify whether the sequence should cycle when it reaches the MAXVALUE
create.createSequence("sequence").cycle().execute();
create.createSequence("sequence").noCycle().execute();

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

createSequence("s").cycle()

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

Aurora Postgres, DB2, DuckDB, H2, HSQLDB, Hana, Informix, MariaDB, Oracle, Postgres, Sybase, Vertica, YugabyteDB

CREATE SEQUENCE s CYCLE

Derby, SQLServer

CREATE SEQUENCE s START WITH 1 CYCLE

ASE, Access, Aurora MySQL, BigQuery, ClickHouse, CockroachDB, Exasol, Firebird, MemSQL, MySQL, Redshift, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLite, Snowflake, Teradata, Trino

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