I recently heard about a bug related to identity columns and their underlying sequence : if the sequence is dropped, an insert in the corresponding identity column would generate an error. Somehow it makes sense, but I wanted to check the behaviour in a recent Oracle Database version.

Fortunately, I have an “Always Free” 18.4 Autonomous Database in the Oracle Cloud, which is very convenient to run this kind of quick tests. The schema I am using is empty.

First, let’s create a simple table :

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