Hiya Erik ---

>>.....any system which relies on an incremented number, in VFP, is suspect >IMHO...now in SQL that's a different story.
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>Would you mind expanding on this?

Sure. VFP has no means of internally managing incremental keys, so it rests on the developer to provide them. Now, the developer must rely on Windows goofy internal buffering and what-not to ensure that sequences remain intact. I have seen time and time again that this can be a problem ---- but not a problem for a server database like SQL or Oracle that totally manage Identity data types (SQL) or sequences (Oracle).