>Does anybody know of a way to automatically increment your primary key in a table being created in Visual FoxPro?
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>My goal is to have my user "skip" the field automatically. A new number would be added to the field each time they entered new records in my other fields.
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>Thanks,
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>John York

John,

If you want a unique, primary key, and don't need an incremented, numeric key, you can use SYS(2015) for the default value. It is faster than using a table to maintain an incremental key, and won't generate duplicates if the NextID table ever gets messed up. There is a very tiny possibility that multiple users can generate a duplicate key if they both call the function at the exact same millesecond.

If you don't like the underscore for the first character, you can use SUBSTR(SYS(2015),2)