Gary Jeurink wrote on 2012-08-22:

> Now that I've upped from fp-6 to fp-9, I want to change a few tables that

> use an integer idno as a primary key to an auto increment type. The only

> reason these tables need a primary key is so I can update their values

> through a view. I learned that the hard way in a football data base when

I

> would mark 1-game as a conference game and then find that many games were

> also checked also. Will it require me to go through all the tables,

views,

> and related forms then reset the data type? I'm not good at generating

the

> next higher idno from a list that is filtered. In this case I keep an

admin

> table that contains the next game idno to use (occasionally fails).

>

>

> Gary Jeurink

>

Gary,

I don't use views.

I believe changing a column to auto-increment is not a breaking change with

the views. I may be wrong, perhaps others have an idea.

Tracy Pearson

PowerChurch Software

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