Hi BOb -
Yeah, that was my guess too. I can see how SQL has enough stuff going on to handle identity fields (though my understanding is there is debate among SQL Server people about using them) but if one is doing view based apps in VFP against fox dbcs I would think hitting the dbc with a lot of users for autoincrement fields might hit some limitations pretty quickly ... no?
>>Hi George -
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>>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
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>My guess... it is stored in the DBC... but I could be wrong. Steve Black said something about storing it in the table header, which I doubt will happen do to all the things that read .DBF's no longer working.
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>BOb
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