How do I reset a sequence in Oracle?

Question

In PostgreSQL, I can do something like this:

ALTER SEQUENCE serial RESTART WITH 0;

Is there an Oracle equivalent?

Answer 1

1) Suppose you create a SEQUENCE like shown below:

CREATE SEQUENCE TESTSEQ
INCREMENT BY 1
MINVALUE 1
MAXVALUE 500
NOCACHE
NOCYCLE
NOORDER

2) Now you fetch values from SEQUENCE. Lets say I have fetched four times as shown below.

SELECT TESTSEQ.NEXTVAL FROM dual
SELECT TESTSEQ.NEXTVAL FROM dual
SELECT TESTSEQ.NEXTVAL FROM dual
SELECT TESTSEQ.NEXTVAL FROM dual

3) After executing above four commands the value of the SEQUENCE will be 4. Now suppose I have reset the value of the SEQUENCE to 1 again. The follow the following steps. Follow all the steps in the same order as shown below:

1. ALTER SEQUENCE TESTSEQ INCREMENT BY -3;
2. SELECT TESTSEQ.NEXTVAL FROM dual
3. ALTER SEQUENCE TESTSEQ INCREMENT BY 1;
4. SELECT TESTSEQ.NEXTVAL FROM dual