In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brian Cummiskey
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>> I hate to disagree (he lied <G>) but adding an autoinc field will make
>> that field automatically renumber itself.
>
>yes, it will work.  but, IMO, its VERY impractical.  Especially if 
>you're trying to keep the table useful in a relational database 
>structure.

If you are about to give these records a number, so that you can add
child records in another table, then it's perfect.  Or if you might, in
the future.

>you want them in order?  you have the ORDER BY clause.
>you want to display them in order, with nice 0 through 25 (for example) 
>numbers, do it in php or in the sql statement itself.

Agreed.

-- 
Pete Clark

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