ehmm and where is it said that N_GEN should add 1 before inserting the record?? sorry i don't understand the help.
Shavonne ----- Original Message ----- From: Kopljan Michael To: 'Shavonne Marietta Wijesinghe' Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 1:45 PM Subject: RE: [SQL] Check before INSERT INTO Try fierst to add Transaction issolation level to Connection object : Conn.IsolationLevel = 1048576 && adXactIsolated Then when user submit form try something like this : strSQL = 'SELECT * FROM my_shevi ORDER BY n_gen DESC, n_sheet DESC, tot_sheet DESC LIMIT 1' Set SQLN_GEN = oConn.Execute(strSQL) SQLN_GEN.AddNew SQLN_GEN('id').Value = 'a' Conn.BeginTrans() SQLN_GEN.Update SQLN_GEN.Requery() Conn.CommitTrans() Bye Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shavonne Marietta Wijesinghe Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 1:04 PM To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: [SQL] Check before INSERT INTO My table structure CREATE TABLE my_shevi ( id text, n_gen serial NOT NULL, n_sheet serial NOT NULL, tot_sheet serial NOT NULL, CONSTRAINT my_shevi_pkey PRIMARY KEY (n_gen, n_sheet, tot_sheet) ) WITH OIDS; ALTER TABLE my_shevi OWNER TO postgres; The user updates the DB via ASP. When 2 users click on the submit button at the same time, only 1 record is inserted. (ERROR: duplicate key violates unique constraint "my_shevi_pkey") For example they both send a string like below. strSQL = INSERT INTO my_shevi VALUES ('a', 4, 1, 1); I thought of adding a test before executing the insert into. Set SQLN_GEN = oConn.Execute("SELECT upper(N_GEN), upper(N_SHEET), upper(TOT_N_SHEET) FROM " & TableName & " WHERE N_GEN='" & n_gen & "' AND N_SHEET='" & n_sheet & "' AND TOT_N_SHEET='" & tot_n_sheet & "'") if (not SQLN_GEN.eof) then ***** set n_gen + 1 else ***** leave n_gen the way it is end if conn.Execute strSQL But how can i ask it to change the n_gen value??? (The part with the *****) Thanks Shavonne Wijesinghe __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 2863 (20080211) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com