adhoc functionality

https://github.com/TheDataStation/DataStation/blob/aed41944e6ddef1878e5cccd2f3c9f62de87d2d3/ds.py#L97

I don't think this is the right place for these details. Why can't the database take care of the ID automatically? why does the escrow have to do that?

See this:
https://www.sqlite.org/autoinc.html

especially the note 2 under summary