Re: auto increment

Author: M Jarvis

Posted: 2012-08-23 at 12:47:06

>On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Paul McNett <p@ulmcnett.com> wrote:

> Over the years of my experience with Fox and VFP, I used all kinds of ways to

> generate primary keys, and in retrospect the best ever was concatenating the machine

> name with the output of sys(2015).

>

Wasn't it true at one time that SYS(2015) didn't guarantee uniqueness?

More like a "really really really good try" sort of thing?

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Matt Jarvis

Eugene, Oregon USA

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