At 1:25 PM -0500 8/7/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>Not sure if this is a bug or just a standard behavior of a auto_increment
>zerofill column.
>
>I have a column in a MySQL database table assigned as such:
>
>memid int(8) auto_increment zerofill primary key,
>
>now when the a new row is inserted in fills the column with the
>appropriate 0's,
>but when I do a 'SELECT LAST_INSERT_ID()', after the insert, I get the last
>insert number, without the zeros, IE... Last inserted id value =
>'00000012' but
>the return value is '12' and if I do a SELECT * FROM table_name WHERE memid =
>'12'; or SELECT * FROM table_name WHERE memid = '00000012';
>
>I get the same results, whether I use '12' or '00000012'
>
>Is this suppose to do that?? Just curious :)
LAST_INSERT_ID() returns a function value, not a table column value.
To get the result you want, you could use LPAD(LAST_INSERT_ID(),8,'0').
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Paul DuBois, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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