At 11:30 AM 7/25/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>I need to add a ticket number to a submission form, any suggestions?

Could you be more specific? Like "1", "2", or "T0001", "T0002", etc.?

Generally if you want the ticket # to be unique... you're going to need to 
wait until just before inserting the record to determine it. Snag the most 
recent ticket #, increment that value, insert it in the next record - to 
make sure two folks putting in a ticket around the same time don't get the 
same ticket #. Transactional processing on the DB calls there.

If it's something as simple as using an identity (auto-incremented) integer 
field in your table as the ticket number, then you've got no worries.

The above assumes you're talking about putting in a record and not trying 
to retrieve one (i.e. "type in your ticket number and hit submit")...

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