Alerts for Number sequence numbers running out

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Hi All,

Is there a way to get alerts when any number sequence is running out of number or less than 10% or 20% left ? I have setup client's Production environment in LCS and there it tells me if any number sequence is running out and less than 20% left. But my client wants an email alert to be sent so that they don't have to check LCS diagnostic report regularly.

Please let me know if there is a standard configuration exists to achieve this functionality.

Thanks,

Baber.

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Vilmos Kintera 46,149 on at

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RE: Alerts for Number sequence numbers running out

Hi

We have set up e-mail notifications for our number sequences as a SQL Job.

It is running weekly, and I get an early heads-up for number sequences that have consumed at least 70% of their allocated range. I will post a blog entry later today about this, but here is the source code.

EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail @recipients = 'youremail@addr.ess', @subject = 'Number sequences consumed above threshold', @profile_name = 'SQLEMAILPROFILENAME', @attach_query_result_as_file=0, @query_attachment_filename = 'numberseq_PROD.csv', @query_result_separator = ';', @execute_query_database = 'YOURAXDATABASE', @query = 'SELECT [NUMBERSEQUENCE] ,[TXT] ,[LOWEST] ,[HIGHEST] ,[NEXTREC] FROM [YOURAXDATABASE].[dbo].[NUMBERSEQUENCETABLE] where (NEXTREC - LOWEST) >= (HIGHEST - LOWEST) * 0.7;', @query_result_header = 1, @exclude_query_output = 1, @query_result_width =500;
syed baber 11,627 on at

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RE: Alerts for Number sequence numbers running out

Thanks Ludwig.
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Ludwig Reinhard Microsoft Employee on at

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RE: Alerts for Number sequence numbers running out

Hello Barber,

I think the default is 9 numbers, which allows you creating more than 999 million transactions.

Should be sufficient for most companies :-)

Best regards,

Ludwig
syed baber 11,627 on at

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RE: Alerts for Number sequence numbers running out

Hi Ludwig,

Thanks for your suggestion. I will advise this. Not sure why the number sequence is setup to small limit like 5 digits initially. The maximum limit we can set is up to 10 digits, right ? Based on the maximum limit for an Integer.
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Ludwig Reinhard Microsoft Employee on at

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RE: Alerts for Number sequence numbers running out

Hello Baber,

Got your point.

Yet, I am wondering why you don't set the limit to a number that you won't reach in the next 10 years or so? Then you don't have to worry about alerts ;-)

Best regards,

Ludwig
syed baber 11,627 on at

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RE: Alerts for Number sequence numbers running out

Hi Ludwig,

I meant to say that the maximum limit for any number sequence is about to reach, then we need an alert that says, less than 20% numbers are left before it runs out. So that we can go and increase the limit. Hope you understand my point.

Thanks,

Baber.
Ludwig Reinhard Microsoft Employee on at

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RE: Alerts for Number sequence numbers running out

Hello Baber,

Just wondering how number sequences can run out? Isn't it that once can assign up to 20 numbers in a sequence? What is the intention of the user if a number sequence comes to an end? Replace it with a new one?

Best regards,

Ludwig