A lot of information. Thanks. For now, the max+1 will work as long as I use

an unfiltered list so that updates through view update only their key record

but logging in users I use a username and encrypted password. They never see

their actual member number id. So is it okay to stay simple with user-id if

the security is really at the gate with user-name & password to get in?

Gary Jeurink

-----Original Message-----

From: Alan Bourke [mailto:alanpbourke@fastmail.fm]

Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 9:31 AM

To: profox@leafe.com

Subject: Re: auto increment

On Fri, Aug 24, 2012, at 02:44 PM, Lew Schwartz wrote:

> I never understood why these routines would be any better than max()+1.

>

Because they are GUIDs - globally unique. That fact is very important in

some applications, but overkill for a lot of others.

--

Alan Bourke

alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm

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