Assigning Primary Key Value
Hello. I had already posted this in the General forum but then I found this one and I think this might be the proper place for my question.
I have an access form which includes my primary key field "ID". Normally when I use this form to enter a new record this field displays "(New)" until I enter data in any other field, then the ID field updates to reflect the new value. This worked fine when the table I was adding the record to was a table linked from another access database.
I recently moved my data to SQL Server 2008, without making any other changes to the application, and this behavior has changed. Now when I enter data into a new record the ID field changes to "NULL". And I am not able to reference this value in my program (Me.ID) like I used to be able to. When I save the record the ID field gets assigned and everything works as normal.
So I am able to make my application work again by forcing the record to save before trying to reference Me.ID, but I was wondering if someone could explain to me what is going on here and why the behavior changed when my table moved from Access to SQL Server.
Hello. I had already posted this in the General forum but then I found this one and I think this might be the proper place for my question.
I have an access form which includes my primary key field "ID". Normally when I use this form to enter a new record this field displays "(New)" until I enter data in any other field, then the ID field updates to reflect the new value. This worked fine when the table I was adding the record to was a table linked from another access database.
I recently moved my data to SQL Server 2008, without making any other changes to the application, and this behavior has changed. Now when I enter data into a new record the ID field changes to "NULL". And I am not able to reference this value in my program (Me.ID) like I used to be able to. When I save the record the ID field gets assigned and everything works as normal.
So I am able to make my application work again by forcing the record to save before trying to reference Me.ID, but I was wondering if someone could explain to me what is going on here and why the behavior changed when my table moved from Access to SQL Server.
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