On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 10:43:16PM -0700, v.suryaprabha@xxxxxxxxx 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 You don't need to change the field type, you just need to use a sequence. i.e. nextval/currval. Wherever you're doing max()+1 do a nextval() instead (after reading the documentation ofcourse). Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@xxxxxxxxx> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a > tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone > else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
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