On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 10:43:16PM -0700, v.suryaprabha@gmail.com 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,
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