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Oscar Santos (santos@xures.ei.uvigo.es)
Wed, 23 Apr 1997 16:32:26 -0600 

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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 16:32:26 -0600
From: Oscar Santos <santos@xures.ei.uvigo.es>
Subject: Re: [mSQL] Automatic field identifier?

Hello Chris!

Thanks for your asnwer.

Your solution seems to be good, i'll probe it. Another question:
Can I obtain the same result whit sequences?

Chris Lambrou wrote:
>
> Oscar,
>
> Sounds like you need a counter field which is not available in mSQL. You
> could simulate a counter field by maintaining a counter table. Before you
> insert a new record, you hit the table, get the counter value and you
> update the counter field by one.

Oscar Santos
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