Mark,
now it gives me an "Invalid Character"


>Try this instead:
>
>

>   CREATE SEQUENCE PersonSN
>   INCREMENT BY 1
>   START WITH 100001
>   NOCACHE;
>
>   ** Create a Server Function "FNext" to return the next sequence from
>   ** Person.
>
>   CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION FNext
>      RETURN NUMBER
>    IS
>      Count1 NUMBER(10);
>   BEGIN
>      SELECT PersonSN.nextval INTO Count1 FROM dual;
>    RETURN Count1;
>   END;
>   /
>

>>
>>Select FNext from dual
>>
>>
>>Thanks for your help