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>>I was thinking along these lines as well, but we have to explicitly lock the whole table before appending a record and retriving info. Otherwise there is a small chance to get the wrong ID.
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>Nadya,
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>Why do you say that?

What if somebody appended a record at the same time? I believe, INSERT puts implicit lock on table header. I don't recall at this moment about APPEND BLANK (but the original question was about insert anyway)...

That's actually a question from somebody in another forum. Here is his(her) latest response:
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I have an C# - INSERT statement on a vfp8.0 database which uses AutoIncrement. Somehow I want to retrieve the number that has been appended. In Sqlserver there is a IDENTITY that can do this but is there something for foxpro database? I know, it's C# programming but I tried my luck at the C# corner with no succes so far. Any help?
I have made a webform in C# that works with a foxpro database. In C# I have an insert statement. Somehow I must retrieve the appended AutoIncrement value.

Your post would indeed get the AutoIncrement value but how can I pass this value to C#?

The problem is I have to use this value to also insert a record to a child table. Maybe I need another approach?
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I advised him to ask this question here and also try to use VFP stored procedures...