In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Angie Tollerson") wrote:
> I will be 3 Jeff :)
>
>
> >>> "Jeff Oien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/10/01 01:13PM >>>
> If I have a database that has three records and I delete the entire
> third record, when another record is then added will the auto increment
> number be 3 or 4? Thanks.
Only if the auto_increment values started at zero. Otherwise, the number
will be 4.
In answer to the question the poster seems to really be asking:
auto_increment doesn't go back and re-use values from deleted rows. What
if you have data in other tables where a foreign key ties (undeleted) data
in that table to the deleted row in the first table? If the value was
re-used, then the data in the second table would suddenly be establishing a
bogus relationship to the new data in the first.
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