You can't be serious...Why in the world would you want to do this?
On Nov 18, 11:48 am, makhaai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> to generate uniquekey please try this, u can modify my code.want any
> description reply me
>
> private string getPrefix(int count)
> {
> string PrefixString = "A";
> Char[] PrefixArray =
> "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ".ToCharArray();
> if (count > 0)
> {
> int maxcount = count / 1000;
> if ((maxcount >= 0) && (maxcount <= 25))
> {
> PrefixString = Convert.ToString(PrefixArray
> [maxcount]);
> }
> else if ((maxcount >= 26) && (maxcount <= 676))
> {
> int preCount = maxcount / 26;
> PrefixString = Convert.ToString(PrefixArray
> [preCount - 1]) + Convert.ToString(PrefixArray[preCount - 1]);
> }
> else if ((maxcount >= 677) && (maxcount <= 458329))
> {
> int preCount = maxcount / 677;
> PrefixString = Convert.ToString(PrefixArray
> [preCount - 1]) + Convert.ToString(PrefixArray[preCount - 1]) +
> Convert.ToString(PrefixArray[preCount - 1]);
> }
> PrefixString = PrefixString + (Convert.ToString(1000 +
> count));
> }
> return PrefixString;
> }
>
> On Nov 19, 1:40 am, "Stephen Russell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > >--ok...so you're saying it would be better just to use the unique timestamp
>
> > as my unique identifier?
>
> > No not at all! That is a sort component.
>
> > .........................
>
> > Stephen Russell -
>
> > Senior Visual Studio Developer, DBA
>
> > Memphis, TN
>
> > 901.246-0159
>
> > From: [email protected]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jon Liu
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 10:03 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: [DotNetDevelopment] Re: Auto-generating a primary key
>
> > ok...so you're saying it would be better just to use the unique timestamp as
> > my unique identifier?
>
> > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 8:00 AM, Joe Enos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > If after all of this you still want to proceed, I'd suggest a two-
> > column primary key, with the userid being the first part, and a new
> > regular integer being the second part. You can store "lastentryid" or
> > "nextentryid" in an int column on the user table, then reference it
> > whenever you need to insert a record.
>
> > I don't think you can both access and increment this column from
> > inside a function, so I think you'd either need to have your entire
> > statement inside of a stored proc, or use two separate commands.
>
> > On Nov 17, 9:50 pm, BigJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > I see a formula section, but not sure how to go about it. I basically
> > > have an primary key called "EntryId" and I want to consist of UserId
> > > +unique counter, so if UserId="BigJ", and it's my first entry, then
> > > EntryId="BigJ1" and the next entry would be BigJ2 etc....any insight
> > > as to how to accomplish this? I know there is a formula field and I am
> > > looking into it, but any insight or simple examples are apreciated, as
> > > I left my SQL book at home lol...Thanks...
>
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