Can automatically generate unique numbers Is a sharable object Can be used to create a primary key value Replaces application code Speeds up the efficiency of accessing sequence values when cached in memeory SyntaxCREATE SEQUENCE sequence [INCREMENT BY n] [START WITH n] [{MAXVALUE n | NOMAXVALUE}] [{MINVALUE n | NOMAXVALUE}] [{CYCLE | NOCYCLE}] [{CACHE n | NOCACHE}]; default increment value : 1 ..