Hi Tom,
I must say I'm a huge fan of urs. Its a great privilege to get an opportunity to post a question on this site. Getting down to business now.

At the sql prompt i give the following
I create a sequence:-

SQL> create sequence seq1 start with 1;
Sequence created.

I prime it for use
SQL> select seq1.nextval from dual;

NEXTVAL
---------
1
I execute the following statement
SQL> select seq1.currval,seq1.nextval,seq1.currval,seq1.nextval from dual;

CURRVAL NEXTVAL CURRVAL NEXTVAL
--------- --------- --------- ---------
2 2 2 2

Pardon my ignorance but I thought the output would be more like


CURRVAL NEXTVAL CURRVAL NEXTVAL
--------- --------- --------- ---------
1 2 1 2


Hope u can clear my doubt.

Thanx a lot

P.S. Ur doing a great job for the Oracle community. Keep up the good work.