Seeding an Access AutoNumber
Forget sequence, did it ever occur to you that maybe a designer might need to enforce a given character length for the number should it be cast to a CHAR value? Ever played ball with a mainframe?
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Darrell,OK, just wanted to be sure you knew what you were doing with autonumbers (I've seen many folks misuse them).Mark Burns, MCAD, MCP Sr. Microsoft Access Analyst/Developer Manager LinkedIn.Com...
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Mark,To reference your question from my other thread (altering data def on linked data source), no I didn't see this response. Here's my scenario:I'm executing an import routine from a Master DB, in...
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Darrell,While several MVPs have answered the technical quesiton for you, I have one in return for you.Why do you need to do this at all? The circumstances when this should be done are rare, such as...
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"DarrellDoesData" wrote in message news:92d7cab9-1790-4c85-b313-f9d3f8167e6c@communitybridge.codeplex.com...> Is there a way to seed an Access Autonumber field so it won't begin at 1? One way is to...
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DarrellDoesData wrote:Is there a way to seed an Access Autonumber field so it won't begin at 1?Yes, beginning with JET4 = Access 2000 you can do it by SQL:ALTER TABLE Table ALTER COLUMN Field...
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Check what Allen Browne has at http://www.allenbrowne.com/ser-26.htmlDoug Steele, Microsoft Access MVP http://www.AccessMVP.com/djsteele (no e-mails, please!)
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Is there a way to seed an Access Autonumber field so it won't begin at 1?Thanx.Darrell H Burns
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