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Old March 7th, 2010, 03:35 PM posted to microsoft.public.access.tablesdbdesign
Jeff Boyce
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Default unique record numbers

Steve offers a cogent point. If your PINs are sequential, and if I have a
PIN, what's to stop me from trying out the number before and after mine?

Are you confident that folks wont be able to use brute force to try all
10,000 possibilities? Are you confident you'll never have 10,000 PINs to
generate?

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Jeff Boyce
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"Rev David Bissas" Rev David wrote in
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I am trying to create a unique PIN for members in a table (not the primary
key) that will be 4 digits long, and would like each new entry to be
incremental. I am very new, and would appreciate a detailed instruction
(though I can get around access fair enough). Any help would be
appreciated.