Forum Post: RE: What could be the cause of RECID pointers corruption/missing?

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Mike understates the case -- "bad idea" doesn't even begin to cover it. Never, ever store a RECID or a ROWID in a database table. Treat RECIDs as very volatile data -- they *might* be consistent from moment to moment during program execution. You will mostly, probably "get away" with using RECID variables within a narrow bit of code -- but even that will not *always* be safe.

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