next primary key in label control

[nasirmajor]

please any urgent response.
Dear alls; (database relevent quetion)
i want to display the next availible primery key {e.g 1,2,3
(autonumbered) next 4} on the user entry form in "label" control.Thanks

[Ray Booysen]

na********@yahoo.com wrote:

please any urgent response.
Dear alls; (database relevent quetion)
i want to display the next availible primery key {e.g 1,2,3
(autonumbered) next 4} on the user entry form in "label" control.Thanks

On another point, primary keys are never supposed to be used for
anything other than indexing in the database. If you're wanting to show
this kind of information, the "best" solution is to have another column
to show this kind of data.

[nasirmajor]

Ray Booysen wrote:

na********@yahoo.com wrote:

please any urgent response.
Dear alls; (database relevent quetion)
i want to display the next availible primery key {e.g 1,2,3
(autonumbered) next 4} on the user entry form in "label" control.Thanks

On another point, primary keys are never supposed to be used for
anything other than indexing in the database. If you're wanting to show
this kind of information, the "best" solution is to have another column
to show this kind of data.

i don't want to show this info to the user (i will set its visible prop
to false). what
i want is to use this value to concatenate with the user picture. so
that this pic can be retrived using picname_primarykeyvalue

[Ray Booysen]

na********@yahoo.com wrote:

Ray Booysen wrote:

na********@yahoo.com wrote:

please any urgent response.
Dear alls; (database relevent quetion)
i want to display the next availible primery key {e.g 1,2,3
(autonumbered) next 4} on the user entry form in "label" control.Thanks

On another point, primary keys are never supposed to be used for
anything other than indexing in the database. If you're wanting to show
this kind of information, the "best" solution is to have another column
to show this kind of data.

i don't want to show this info to the user (i will set its visible prop
to false). what
i want is to use this value to concatenate with the user picture. so
that this pic can be retrived using picname_primarykeyvalue

In a multi user system, you can't guarentee what the next primary key
will be. If two users open the site at once and open the form, there
will be problems if they use the "next" primary key.

[bruce barker \(sqlwork.com\)]

in this senerio you can not use an identity as primary key. you create a new
table

create table NextID (lastID int not null)
insert NextID values (0)

then you get the next number with a simple sql statement

declare @id int
update set @id = lastID = lastID + 1
select @id

you could also switch to a GUID as the key value type, then you can generate
them on the client when needed.

-- bruce (sqlwork.com)
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please any urgent response.
Dear alls; (database relevent quetion)
i want to display the next availible primery key {e.g 1,2,3
(autonumbered) next 4} on the user entry form in "label" control.Thanks

[Jared]

My method for doing this is to fire an append query then straight away
get the max ID. So long as you haven't got another transaction in the
same millisecond it should work.

e.g.

//Insert New Records into Table
strsql = "Insert Into tblMyTable (intData) Values (1)";

conn = new SqlConnection(csConnections.strConnMyConnection);
command = new SqlCommand(strsql, conn);
conn.Open();

try
{
command.ExecuteNonQuery();
}

catch
{
return "Failure";
}

finally
{
conn.Close();
}

//Get New ID
int intNewID = 0
strsql = "SELECT max(ID) FROM tblMyTable";
command = new SqlCommand(strsql, conn);
conn.Open();

reader = command.ExecuteReader();

while (reader.Read())
{
intNewID = reader.GetInt32(0);
}
conn.Close();

You can now use intNewID for part of your picture name.

Regards

Jared
na********@yahoo.com wrote:

please any urgent response.
Dear alls; (database relevent quetion)
i want to display the next availible primery key {e.g 1,2,3
(autonumbered) next 4} on the user entry form in "label" control.Thanks

[nasirmajor]

Jared wrote:

My method for doing this is to fire an append query then straight away
get the max ID. So long as you haven't got another transaction in the
same millisecond it should work.

e.g.

//Insert New Records into Table
strsql = "Insert Into tblMyTable (intData) Values (1)";

conn = new SqlConnection(csConnections.strConnMyConnection);
command = new SqlCommand(strsql, conn);
conn.Open();

try
{
command.ExecuteNonQuery();
}

catch
{
return "Failure";
}

finally
{
conn.Close();
}

//Get New ID
int intNewID = 0
strsql = "SELECT max(ID) FROM tblMyTable";
command = new SqlCommand(strsql, conn);
conn.Open();

reader = command.ExecuteReader();

while (reader.Read())
{
intNewID = reader.GetInt32(0);
}
conn.Close();

You can now use intNewID for part of your picture name.

Regards

Jared

Thanks to all responses. it will solve my problem