Hi,

> > Thank you for your explanation. I did it.
> > Now how can I get this auto generated vaule when I insert records? I
> have an
> > example for mssql server which uses @@IDENTITY for returning this value.
> > Does it work for firebird?
> > Should I start a new message thread for this?
> >
>
> I think Gen_id function can do this job.
>
> Syntax is : gen_id ( generator, step)
>
> If you set argument "step" to 1, the function increment the generator
> by 1 and returns the value of the generator.
>
> If you set argument "step" to 0, the function returns the value of the
> generator without increment or decrement.

Yes, it does. But it's not multi-user safe.

What I do, if I want to make sure my values auto-inc, is the following:

1) create an auto-inc-like trigger, but only fire it if there's NULL or 0
in my "ID" column.

2) use a componentset that allows you to set a generator for a specific
field, so that before posting the field, it will fetch a new generator
value first.

or

3) get the generator value myself if I need it on the client side and put
it into the ID column myself.


With regards,

Martijn Tonies
Database Workbench - developer tool for InterBase, Firebird, MySQL & MS SQL
Server.
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