Charlie,

thanks - I am well aware of "key table" techniques, but am trying to use SQL identity fields and @@identity since it is more "SQL 7 Centric" if you will, rather than pulling keys "before the fact" as I do in pure VFP.

Ken

>Ken:
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>You can create a stored procedure that generates the next available key then return it to the client with code like this:
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>lnKey = 0
>= sqlexec(lnhandle, "{CALL spGetKey (?@lnKey)}")
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>or
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>What I do is get a key at the start of an application using the above code, then each time I need a new key I concatenate it with a key generated on the client. This way you save round trips to the server each time you need a new key.
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>Charlie