Hi Allon,

Only one query can be sent to server at a time.  But your particular case
can be handled with the single query

Insert Into orders (Number) select Max(Number) FROM Orders;

Anvar.

At 04:45 PM 19/03/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi All-
>
>We are using the mm driver for MySQL and multiple statements in one
>connection do not seem to be supported:
>
>I.e.
>
>SELECT @a:=MAX(Number) FROM Orders;insert into orders (Number) values (@a+1)
>
>
>The driver throws a syntax error.  You can do either one of these statements
>on their own, and you can have a semicolon in the statement, but you cannot
>combine the statements.
>
>Are we missing something?
>
>How would you do a transaction or table lock without multi statement
>support?
>
>-Allon
>
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