On 2/6/2021 7:08 AM, edward racht wrote: > Greetings, > > Does any of the following reference contribute to your discussion? > > http://www.goldenstag.net/dbase/Tutorial/02a_DBFsAndIndexes.htm > > Need AutoIncrement Type Field, But Don't Want Problems? > > Periodically someone comes into the newsgroups and complains about how > the autoincrement field messed them up completely and they don't want to > use autoincrement fields, but they need that functionality. (Typically > these are the issues mentioned above -- if you spend a little time with > them, you can deal with the issues. Using Bowen's code above most people > have few problems with them.)
This is in reference to things like adding an autoincrement after the
table was populated, or other things, where the numbers are not in sync.