Posted by Randy Martin on 02/14/06 17:24

Maybe this

select top 1 ID, PIN from pin_table where acquired_by = <not acquired
value> (NOTE: this could be expensive if you use null to signify Not
Acquired, perhaps a non-null value with an index would help).

update pin_table set acquired_by = <acquired value> where ID = <ID from
select>

commit

--or --

set up one table containing the unused pins and one containing the used
pins

then
select top 1 ID, PIN from unused_pin
insert into used_pin values (ID, PIN)
delete from unused_pin where ID = ID

commit

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