Walter,

I have this situation. We have a Lender table with Code (Char 6) made as PK. This table has already one record with empty code (by design). Now I can't issue APPEND BLANK. What would be your advice in this situation?

Thanks in advance.

>John,
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>>Ack!
>aww
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>>Kevin, don't do it! Don't base primary or candidate keys on user data!
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>Well, I knew some people were against using intelligent primary keys, but I really wonder what's against intelligent candidate keys. Where do you want to use candidate keys. And more important how do you force a userdata value to be unique troughout the table ??
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>Walter,