Clive,
Thursday, February 21, 2002, 3:22:47 PM, you wrote:
CA> Apart from timestamp are there any other fields that will
CA> automatically generate data for themselves when a new record is
CA> created ?.
CA> I'm having trouble using timestamp with Macromdia Dreamweaver so
CA> something that just generates a unique number for each record
CA> would be good e.g 1,2,3,4,5,6,7, .......
What about AUTO_INCREMENT field or LAST_INSERT_ID() function?
Look at:
http://www.mysql.com/doc/e/x/example-AUTO_INCREMENT.html
http://www.mysql.com/doc/M/i/Miscellaneous_functions.html
http://www.mysql.com/doc/G/e/Getting_unique_ID.html
CA> Thanks.
CA> Clive Arnold - IT Co-ordinator
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