Oracle sequence caching

Question

I am trying to implement a sequence in an Oracle database to act as a surrogate key creator for a table. For performance reasons, I want this sequence to be cached. I have rea

Answer 1

Say the cache has the values 101-200. The value written on disk is 201. Your insert uses 101-150. Instance goes down. Instance starts up. Next time the sequence is used 201-300 will be cached.