Restoring deleted autonumber

[ed finley]

I have a table of employes set up with an autonumber field as the primary
key. Someone deleted one of the members. I'm would like to restore the
member with the same ID number. Is this possible?
Thanks,
Ed

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

If you create a table that's identical to the Employee table, but has a Long
Integer rather than an Autonumber, you can populate that new table with the
appropriate information, and then append it to the existing Employee table.

However, my question would be "Why bother?" An autonumber exists for one
reason: to provide a (practically guaranteed) unique value that can be used
as a primary key. What that value is shouldn't matter: in fact, it's rare
that the value of the autonumber gets displayed.

If the value of your autonumber fields has significance, you may want to
reconsider using autonumbers.

 

[LGC]

However, my question would be "Why bother?" An autonumber exists for one
reason: to provide a (practically guaranteed) unique value that can be used
as a primary key. What that value is shouldn't matter: in fact, it's rare
that the value of the autonumber gets displayed.

- To restore the relationship with existing foreign keys?

 

[Brendan Reynolds]

There can't be any related records with the deleted value if referential
integrity was enforced.

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