On Thursday 06 November 2008, "EXT-Rothermel, Peter M"
<Peter(dot)M(dot)Rothermel(at)boeing(dot)com> wrote:
> I have thought about using the serial data type for the employee.id but
> I also want to automate the prepending of the { W, M, E } prefix.
>
You'll need write a before-insert trigger to assign the ID.
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Alan