topic Managing the OBJECTID Field in Data Management Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/managing-the-objectid-field/m-p/130741#M7532 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I have a series of tables I have created in ArcCatalog which I want to populate externally from some code I have written in .NET. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I had assumed that the OJBECTID field was a sequence field, but this is obviously not the case. How is the OBJECTID number derived for each row in each layer if it is not a sequence field? Do you run a MAX(OBJECTID) first prior to each Insert?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>David</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 18 Jul 2011 22:50:52 GMT DavidTriggs 2011-07-18T22:50:52Z Managing the OBJECTID Field https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/managing-the-objectid-field/m-p/130741#M7532 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I have a series of tables I have created in ArcCatalog which I want to populate externally from some code I have written in .NET. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I had assumed that the OJBECTID field was a sequence field, but this is obviously not the case. How is the OBJECTID number derived for each row in each layer if it is not a sequence field? Do you run a MAX(OBJECTID) first prior to each Insert?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>David</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 18 Jul 2011 22:50:52 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/managing-the-objectid-field/m-p/130741#M7532 DavidTriggs 2011-07-18T22:50:52Z