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To clarify what I just said, there are acceptable uses for ROWIDs. For example if you have a record in a buffer and you want to soon thereafter fetch that record into a second named buffer for that table, then you can FIND btable WHERE ROWID( btable ) = v-rowid. That's fine, it's a short-term use. But storing a ROWID for any length of time and depending on it to be consistent is risky.

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