At 07:57 AM 3/11/2002 -0800, Reggie White wrote:

>Can RDB$_DB_KEY be used as a method to determine if a record has been
>modified?
>
>Under SQLBase and Oracle they have what is called a ROWID, this ROWID gets a
>new value everytime time the record is modified.
>It has the capabilities as the RDB$_DB_KEY, a way to locate, update or
>delete a record.

No, the RDB$DB_KEY is fixed for the life of the record.


Regards,

Ann
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