Re: [DUG]: ADO V BDE and Identity Columns

1999-11-03 Thread Tony Blomfield
OK. All accepted, and I dont want to embark on a religious conversion... I accept there are 2 schools on this subject...and I belong to the surrogate school. To me it goes like this... You have only 1 column involved in the PK Its allways as fast or faster - never slower Its a hell of a lot eas

[DUG]: ADO V BDE and Identity Columns

1999-11-03 Thread Neven MacEwan
Hiya All Firstly ADO vs BDE, I've been using ADOExpress with MSSQL7 and I assume the ADO components use a cursor to access the database, Cursors are probably the most elegant way to access/update Data on SQL server from an interactive front end since they are bidirectionally scrollable and upd