Thanks Natalie & Ed. This Works just fine. What I want to do, is let a person subscribe new affiliates without having to look up what the last affiliate's number was and show the next one in the "new affiliate" form.
César Aracena IS / MCSE+I Neuquén, NQN (0299) 156-356688 (0299) 446-6621 > -----Mensaje original----- > De: Leotta, Natalie (NCI/IMS) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Enviado el: Miércoles, 12 de Junio de 2002 03:39 p.m. > Para: 'César Aracena'; 'PHP DB List'; PHP General List > Asunto: RE: [PHP] Querying for MAX > > is > > select MAX(<column name>) > > what you are looking for? I know it works on numeric columns, I'm not > sure > if it works on non-numbers, you'd have to look it up in a SQL Tutorial > somewhere. > > Good luck! > > -Natalie > > -----Original Message----- > From: César Aracena [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 2:36 PM > To: 'PHP DB List'; PHP General List > Subject: [PHP] Querying for MAX > > > I'm sorry if this mensaje is posted twice. I sent it yesterdays, but then > my > ISP had problems with e-mail and I lost dozens of them and don't know if > sent OK. > > > Hi all, > > What I'm trying to do here is not inside PHP nor MySQL books I have. I > need > to query the DB to look the max result in a column. That is, if I have > affiliate members with ID going from 1 to 10, get the query to know that > the > last member added was 10 so I can add member 11 without using > auto_increment, because I need to insert old members too which already > have > ID numbers. Is that possible? > > Thanks in advance, > > > Cesar Aracena <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CE / MCSE+I > Neuquen, Argentina > +54.299.6356688 > +54.299.4466621 -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
