>>what is autoincrement ?
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>Access has a field of type "Autoincrement". It is basically a 4-byte integer, but an auto-incremented (sequential) value is stored automatically for each record added. This is very convenient for primary keys - if you choose to use PKs without business value.
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>In VFP, the same can be done calling a UDF from the default value of a field, so I think the lack of an autoincremented field is not a major issue.
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>Hilmar.

a professionally built VFP application would already have a feature like this...
For example, the Codemine framework allows one to define a primary key and how it is calculated (incremental counter is one way).
Thus, I'd call this new feature 'window dressing'.