Re: Auto increment

"--CELKO--" <71062.1056_at_compuserve.com> wrote in message news:c0d87ec0.0305101930.65eb8cca_at_posting.google.com...
> [a bunch of good points.]
>
> There are better ways of creating identifiers.

Do these same problems apply to *any* system-supplied key? It seems that your "The entire, whole, completed set is presented to Foobar all at once, not a row at a time" objection would apply to any such.

But it seems pretty common that I just want to have a key, and I don't care what the specific values are (as long as they are unique,) and I'd like to have the system supply it for me. Is there no clean way to do this?

Marshall Received on Sun May 11 2003 - 07:30:19 CEST