Use your own id's. I personally hate auto increment. I do all my work in
php so I make my id's like this.
srand(time());
$id = md5(uniqid(rand()));
This will make a 32 character id.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Viken Nokhoudian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 3:58 PM
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> Subject: Auto-Increment - how can I avoid repeating IDs?
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> I am using MySQL ver. 3.22.32
>
> When a table has an auto-incrementing ID field and the last inserted
> record had an ID of, say, 100, then I delete that record, the database
> engine will re-use the 100 value. How can I get the engine to never
> repeat an ID value to avoid corrupted data correlations?
>
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