In the last episode (Jan 16), Scott Gerhardt said:
> I was reading the information on foreign keys in the manual
> http://www.mysql.com/doc/e/x/example-Foreign_keys.html
> and noticed that there is no mention of locking the tables.
>
> It seems to me that using the example verbatim could lead to loss of
> referencial integrity if INSERTS did not occur in sequence (i.e. another
> person was inserted before shirts).
>
> Using "LAST_INSERT_ID()" can only be guranteed to work if the tables are
> locked.
>From the manual section on LAST_INSERT_ID():
The last ID that was generated is maintained in the server on a
per-connection basis. It will not be changed by another client.
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Dan Nelson
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