I originally posted this question on the "Database, tables, Views..." Category and got no reply so I thought I'd try my luck here. Is my situation/question so unusual? Here goes...


I have a view of a table that includes an autoinc field from the underlying table. When I insert a new record into the view, the autoinc field does not autoinc like it does when I insert directly to the table itself.

Is there some way that I can have the view get the autoinc value that the table would use without actually adding the record to the table? After all, that would defeat the purpose of my buffered view wouldn't it?

VFP8SP1 in Win2000Pro

Thanks in advance

Mike