Re: how to prevent generating same clipids

This problem has been solved, by the use of sequences. If you can't
use them as a default, you can use them instead of

MAX(clipid)

You would use

NEXTVAL(clipid_seq)

assuming you had first done

CREATE SEQUENCE clipid_seq;
SELECT SETVAL('clipid_seq', (select MAX(clipid) from whatevertable));

This will guarantee no duplicates. It will not guarantee no missing values.

On 10 Apr 2006 22:43:16 -0700, v(dot)suryaprabha(at)gmail(dot)com
<v(dot)suryaprabha(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi
> Now we cannot change the field type. Because already our application
> is running and thousands of records are already entered. we are getting
> same no for clipid when 2 users are entering data at a time. so how to
> solve the problem
>
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