Yes, I know from experience, it's the best way to do it.
And if you need to get the number generated by an auto_increment column in
an insert, you can use last_insert_id() (or mysql_insert_id() with php).
> Thank you Chris with this info! This will greatly help me out, so as I see
> it now, there is absolutely no advantage to generating your own unique
> numbers manually - just let MySQL do it for you.... am I correct in this
> assumption?
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