>Happy Holidays Everyone!
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>I've noticed that although a record has been deleted,
>when you enter the item again, Foxpro still complains
>that the item already exists when item is primarily key.
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>I was wondering if there is a way to allow the
>re-entry of a primary key item that has deleted.

A records that's been flagged as deleted still exists as far as it's key values go. If you're going to have to reuse keys, I'd recommend that you either change the value of the primary key to an arbitrary, unique nonsense value on deletion, or check to see if the record already exists and has been deleted before INSERTING, and if necessary, RECALL the record and then replace the appropriate values.

I tend to use surrogate primary keys (keys that are unique and carry no detail about the record other than providing a unique identifier, typiczlly an integer field that is unioquely assigned when the record is added) and don't recycle the keys.

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>Thank you.