Primary Key/Read only issue

Hi:
I'm setting up a table in an ACCESS 2003 ADP project. I don't want to
assign a primary key because the data I'll be importing contains duplicate
values in all collumns. There is no, and can be no field with unique
values. When I import the data into this table I'm not able to add, delete,
edit data or do anything because I have no primary key defined. It tells me
that the recordset is not updatable and the data is read only. Does anyone
know how I can get around this?
Thanks in advance,
Steve

Hi, Steve.

When I import the data into this table I'm not able to add, delete,
edit data or do anything because I have no primary key defined.

Does anyone
know how I can get around this?

Yes. Add a new column to the table to hold a unique value to be created for
each record so that the database engine can uniquely identify each record in
the table. This new column will be used as the primary key for this
temporary table. The purpose of a primary key is to uniquely identify
records and establish relationships between records in multiple tables.

HTH.

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"Steve S" wrote in message
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Hi:
I'm setting up a table in an ACCESS 2003 ADP project. I don't want to
assign a primary key because the data I'll be importing contains duplicate
values in all collumns. There is no, and can be no field with unique
values. When I import the data into this table I'm not able to add,
delete,
edit data or do anything because I have no primary key defined. It tells
me
that the recordset is not updatable and the data is read only. Does
anyone
know how I can get around this?
Thanks in advance,
Steve