>Hello... I am very new to the Visual FoxPro World... so, if these questions seem basic, they probably are!
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>I took an introduction class to VFP6.0 and learned the program code for auto-generating primary keys.
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>Question: Do I have to create a sysinfo table for each primary key located in my tables that I want to auto-generate?
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>Last night I created 7 stored proceedures and 7 sysinfo tables for my tables. It appears to work fine, however I am not sure this is the best way to do it. In ACCESS you just have to select AUTONumber and it does the same thing. It seems like a lot of work.
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>Am I doing things correctly? Is there a better way?
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>Jason Doyle
>MSA Consulting, Inc.

No, you may have just one table with two fields: TableName C, Counter I. Your key-generating procedure will firstly locate needed record (by table name) and then return new counter from this record.