In article <33865@palm-dev-forum>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sam Drost) wrote:
> I'm curious about the unique ID assigned to every record by the Palm OS
> (the one used for DmFindRecordByID). Can this be used for making a
> relational database? In other words does this ID stay the same each
> time the database is opened. And suppose I want to assign one on the PC
> to the backup, how do I know what number to assign? Any help in this
> would be appreciated.
>
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> This is a funny signature....laugh, NOW!
This has been discussed before. You may find more about it in the
archives. I think to remember, that the unique id stays almost always the
same and can be used carefully for a relational database. But you should
save a copy of the id inside the record to restore when necessary. The ids
may change after a restore from the backup with some older versions (1.0
?) of HotSync on the PC and some (not so old, maybe even current) versions
on the Mac.
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