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Re: Ideal Starter Database?
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"Richard S. Russell" <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:05:43 -0500
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On 2010 Jun 22, at 20:14, Winfried Huslik wrote:

> Richard,
> 
> You don't have to take care of the Next Auto-enter value. You can freely import a number of records created on your Laptop (which may hold a copy of your database) without worrying about duplicate serial numbers. You may update accidentally deleted records using a backup with matching IDs, etc.
> 
> One possible caveat may be that duplicating a record does NOT create a new serial number. This may be an advantage or disadvantage - it depends...


Ah, got it. Thanks. A somewhat different set of trade-offs than I'm used to, but I can already start to see instances where it would come in handy.

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