How to get gap free sequence numbers

Published: 31 March 2022
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The first rule of gap free sequences is .... just forget about it and allow gaps :-)
But if for some reason that is not an option, here is a relatively scalable mechanism using some of the features designed for Advanced Queuing to allow sequence number allocation which is gap free but has a couple of compromises.

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