>Hi everybody,
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>I have an application that looks like it was converted from 2.6 at some point and then moved to VPM 6.0
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>The tables are in the database, but not really properly normalized. The Orders table has OrdNo field (Numeric 7), which I believe is supposed to be a PK in this table. I'm not sure how exactly it was populated originally.
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>The question is - how can I generate the unique Order No ? I don't know if it would be a good idea to introduce counter table to this existing application?
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>Any ideas here? I've searched the whole project and I don't see a single INSERT command involving OrdNo field - it is probably done with APPEND BLANK and REPLACE.
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>Thanks in advance.

If the number looks sequential then you may calculate max()+1 at saving point and use it for the next record. Insert command would be checked for candidate/primary key duplicate error. It should be sufficient if number of users is small.