It is unique for the life of a transaction and you can request that the
scope be changed to the life of the connection but what this does is start
and internal transaction and leave it open for the duration of the
connection. You don't want to do this because it will hold up garbage
collection. I suppose you can do it if you like as long as you are
disconnecting frequently.

HTH,
Jason Wharton
CPS - Mesa AZ
http://www.ibobjects.com

----- Original Message -----
From: <lester@...>
To: <IBObjects@egroups.com>
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 4:43 AM
Subject: Re: [IBO] KeyLinks & Primary Keys


> > What is DB_KEY anyway
>
> Fast answer it's a unique record number identifying each record you are
> working with. If you don't define a unique key, this one gets used.
>
> Could someone else elaborate on the details. Is it unique for the life
> of the record, or just for the life of the transaction?
>
> --
> Lester Caine
> -----------------------------
> L.S.Caine Electronic Services
>
>
>