Gary Jeurink wrote on 2012-08-22: > Now that I've upped from fp-6 to fp-9, I want to change a few tables that > use an integer idno as a primary key to an auto increment type. The only > reason these tables need a primary key is so I can update their values > through a view. I learned that the hard way in a football data base when I > would mark 1-game as a conference game and then find that many games were > also checked also. Will it require me to go through all the tables, views, > and related forms then reset the data type? I'm not good at generating the > next higher idno from a list that is filtered. In this case I keep an admin > table that contains the next game idno to use (occasionally fails). > > > Gary Jeurink >
Gary, I don't use views. I believe changing a column to auto-increment is not a breaking change with the views. I may be wrong, perhaps others have an idea. Tracy Pearson PowerChurch Software _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
