>Just curious what folks think out there regarding what's the best way to generate key field values when adding new records to tables.
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>When my users click the ADD button, I've been running code to use the table in the key field order, go bottom, find the last value and add 1 to it for the new record's key field value.
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>It seems to be working fine, though I realized I had to play with my SET DELETED ON/OFF commands so my next value was unique and not the same as a deleted record's.
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>I know some folks keep separate tables to track the next available key value for their tables. I'm assuming it looks like a 2 field table, one for the table's name, one for the next value. You'd then check there for the next value you want to assign.
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>Any way better than any other??
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>MTIA!!
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>Mandy

I use the 2nd method.

I generate the key field on the save routine if I'm using row/table buffering.

if I'm using SQL I issue my select statement with "UPDLOCK" to get the next available key field value.