Subject Re: creating unique key : usingprimair key and foreign key
From Ken Mayer <dbase@nospam.goldenstag.net>
Date Sat, 6 Feb 2021 10:31:23 -0800
Newsgroups dbase.getting-started

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.

Ken


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