Last Row Got Stuck

Hello,

I have a small table to manage orders in my company. When a new order is entered, the script makes use of the last row of the table to find out the last order, increments it and creates the new order number. The problem is, a few days ago the last row got stuck. New insertions to the table all got the same order number and are placed above the last row. Anybody has any idea what's going on?hey
do you have multiple concurrent applciations accesing the table?
any reason you are doing the incremting 'manually' instead of using an auto-inc int?
des|||Hello Des,

Below is the protion of the ASP code that assigns the ordernumber. It is in the form "TPD-mmm-nnn" where mmm is the mont (like 002 for Feb) and nnn is the order number (like 001,002,etc). The if clause tries to reset the order number back to 001 if the month starts anew.

...
set rs = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.recordset")
rs.CursorType = 3
selectstr="SELECT * FROM konuttekliflist"
rs.open selectstr, conn
rs.movelast
tekno=rs.fields("teklifno")
tekay=mid(tekno,5,3)
teklifindex=right("00" & right(tekno,4)+1,3)
monthnow=right("00" & month(now()),3)
if tekay=monthnow then
teklifno1="TPD-" & monthnow & "-" & teklifindex
else
teklifno1="TPD-" & monthnow & "-001"
end if
sql="INSERT INTO konuttekliflist ("
...

And yes, the application is used concurrently by 4 people.

Thanks to your interest and help.|||So ID is generated with datenow...are the four apps runnning on sep machines to db server & eachother? are all their dates/times
in perfect sync? otherwise this could cause problems.

If two orders come in at the same time, they could potentially conflict?

i see you select all into a recordset - this could cause locks that conflict with your other apps. why not select(max) substring(mmm)+subsrting(nnn) into local variable, instead of iterating through recordset?
How does it cross over the year?

how about generating the ID in sql with a computed column, using its own date and increment, then at least you dont have four different things competing for the next value? ie.gen id's centrally

des