John,
You can't be serious in terms of a high volume site. FMP would bring the
site to a crawl since it is single threaded. In any site where the traffic
is low enough to support FMP as a backend you can use any of the methods
even Max DBMS to get ID back.
Dan
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> From: John Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 08:41:43 -0700
> To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Key of Record Just Written
>
>
> On Tuesday, August 27, 2002, at 05:13 PM, Ben Johansen wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> You would think that after all this time of people needing to get the
>> unique auto generated id, the database creators would have said, ah-hah,
>> this is something that would be useful.
>>
>>
>> What would really be cool is to do an insert and have the ID returned,
>> naah! Makes to much sense and beside there is all these workarounds that
>> people have written over the years and we don't want to upset their
>> ingenuity
>
> Ben,
>
> They already did that! Way back when they first created Tango. (1995?)
>
> If you use FileMaker Pro as your datasource, you're automatically
> returned the recordID of the newly created record... "by default".
> (actionresult)
>
> So... why not hook up a FileMaker Pro datasource to generate
> RecordID's... I mean you're all trying (way too hard) to "lock" or
> "Transaction Block" your "Multi Threaded" databases anyway so that they
> behave "just like FileMaker Pro"... ???
>
> Regards,
>
> John Schroeder
>
>
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