Hi George -
A couple of questions on a technical level : how does an autoincrementing field store the last value or is the max val calculated on the fly? If the latter, is there a speed hit? And what happens if data from two systems have to be merged ( a common business need amoung my clients ) etc.
i.e. what are the limitations and downside of autoincrementing fields?
>Wouldn't make a good deal of sense to dump the PK generation routines in favor of an auto-increment? If one did, not only would there be less code to currently maintain, but also the upsizing process would more seamless and less modifications required, especially if the developer had the good sense design against the Fox tables as if they were SQL Server tables.
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TIA
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