>From: Helen Borrie <helebor@...>
>Reply-To: ib-support@yahoogroups.com
>To: ib-support@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [ib-support] Idea for a new field type for FB 2,0 or IB 7?
>Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 17:18:45 +1100
>
>At 12:52 AM 22-11-01 -0500, you wrote:
> >At 11/22/2001 12:20 AM (Thursday), Geoff Worboys wrote:
> > >There is nothing insane or even technically difficult about
> > >maintaining an unbroken sequence. Attempting to use such a solution
> > >where it is not required (such as generated key values) may be
> > >somewhat crazy, but there are places where unbroken sequences are
> > >required.
> >
> >Any examples you can think of?
>
>Sometimes we can't persuade our superiors in the Accounts Dept that they
>can live without their beloved Auditable Series for product serial numbers,
>document numbers, etc. As long as we can help them to understand why it's
>a real dog of an idea to use their auditable numbers as database keys (as
>they learned in Accountant School in 1954), we can give them an auditable
>series that has a life of its own.
>
>For some ideas about how easy or hard it is, see
>
>http://www.ibobjects.com/docs/ti_AuditableSeries.zip
>
>Just NEVER be persuaded that maintaining your own "generators" in a
>database table by having applications add 1 to the last number was ever
>safer in the earth's field of gravity than jumping out of an aeroplane at
>10,000 feet with no parachute.
>
>H.
>
>
>All for Open and Open for All
>InterBase Developer Initiative � http://www.interbase2000.org
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