I'm not sure this is the version of the BDE, mine says 4.0 in the init, but
I'm sure it is 5.01 I actually have.

How does your system allocate PK's on inserts?

> Pretty sure. All of my developemnt machines have BCB4, and on all of

them, if I go

> into the BDE Administrator, and go to

Configuration->System->Init->Version, it says

> "4". So, the question is: Is this a problem? If so, is it possible for

my clients

> to get an updated copy of the BDE w/ SQL Links, without me having to buy

another

> Borland Enterprise product?
>
> Another strange symptom that sometimes happens: Before doing the

Append(), my app

> will do a query to see if that key already exists. If not, it proceeds as

above.

> But sometimes, the Post() will fail with a key violation, even though the

previous

> query said the key wasn't there. The two people are working on completely

separate

> inventory items, so it's not a case of person 2 slipping in the record

between the

> query and the append.
>