From: Duncs on
I have a table with data in it, whihc now needs to have a unique ID
added to each record. The ID must start at 2000000 and increment by 1
for each record.

Can I achieve this, and if so how?

Many TIA

Duncs
From: KenSheridan via AccessMonster.com on
I'd suggest first adding an autonumber column, and a long integer number
column to the table. The autonumber will be filled automatically. Check
that it starts with 1 and increments by 1, and if so execute an update query,
updating the long integer number column to:

[YourAutonumberColumn]+1999999

You can then delete the autonumber column from the table and make the long
integer number column its primary key, or otherwise index it uniquely and set
its Required property to True (Yes). To increment the long integer number
column for subsequent new records Roger Carlson has simple methods for
generating custom 'autonumbers' in either a single or multi-user environment
at:

http://www.rogersaccesslibrary.com/forum/topic395.html

Or my slightly more complex method at:

http://community.netscape.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?nav=libraryMessages&tsn=1&tid=23839&webtag=ws-msdevapps


allows the next number to be generated to be reseeded at any time.

Ken Sheridan
Stafford, England

Duncs wrote:
>I have a table with data in it, whihc now needs to have a unique ID
>added to each record. The ID must start at 2000000 and increment by 1
>for each record.
>
>Can I achieve this, and if so how?
>
>Many TIA
>
>Duncs

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From: Duncs on
Ken,

Sorry for the unreasonable delay in replying to you. I tried your
suggestion and it works a treat for me. It also gives me a bit more
scope to do some otheer things with the data.

Cheers

Duncs

On 8 Apr, 12:09, "KenSheridan via AccessMonster.com" <u51882(a)uwe>
wrote:
> I'd suggest first adding an autonumber column, and a long integer number
> column to the table.  The autonumber will be  filled automatically.  Check
> that it starts with 1 and increments by 1, and if so execute an update query,
> updating the long integer number column to:
>
> [YourAutonumberColumn]+1999999
>
> You can then delete the autonumber column from the table and make the long
> integer number column its primary key, or otherwise index it uniquely and set
> its Required property to True (Yes).  To increment the long integer number
> column for subsequent new records Roger Carlson has simple methods for
> generating custom 'autonumbers' in either a single or multi-user environment
> at:
>
> http://www.rogersaccesslibrary.com/forum/topic395.html
>
> Or my slightly more complex method at:
>
> http://community.netscape.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?nav=libraryMessages&ts....
>
> allows the next number to be generated to be reseeded at any time.
>
> Ken Sheridan
> Stafford, England
>
> Duncs wrote:
> >I have a table with data in it, whihc now needs to have a unique ID
> >added to each record.  The ID must start at 2000000 and increment by 1
> >for each record.
>
> >Can I achieve this, and if so how?
>
> >Many TIA
>
> >Duncs
>
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