RE: AUTO_INCREMENT columns randomly restart counting from 1

2002-02-04 Thread Andreas Schoelver
Hi Michael 01.02.02 16:27:24, "Fochtman, Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >BMJI, > >But isn't 'last_insert_id()' only meant to be called after inserting a >record?? If you've never inserted a record (using the current connection), >it seems like calling 'last_insert_id()' would be a meaningl

RE: AUTO_INCREMENT columns randomly restart counting from 1

2002-02-04 Thread Andreas Schoelver
Hi Bruce 01.02.02 15:41:49, Bruce Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi Andreas, > >> >I think AUTO_INCREMENT is on a per-connection basis. So if >> you're doing >> >this across different database connections, it will reset to 0. >[snip] >> do a 'select * from where test=1' and you will >>

RE: AUTO_INCREMENT columns randomly restart counting from 1

2002-02-01 Thread Fochtman, Michael
e Fochtman > -Original Message- > From: Bruce Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 9:42 AM > To: 'Andreas Schoelver'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: AUTO_INCREMENT columns randomly restart counting from 1 > > > Hi Andre

RE: AUTO_INCREMENT columns randomly restart counting from 1

2002-02-01 Thread Bruce Stewart
Hi Andreas, > >I think AUTO_INCREMENT is on a per-connection basis. So if > you're doing > >this across different database connections, it will reset to 0. [snip] > do a 'select * from where test=1' and you will > see that the 2 new > values will be visible to both of the clients. As I unde

RE: AUTO_INCREMENT columns randomly restart counting from 1

2002-02-01 Thread Andreas Schoelver
30.01.02 17:48:06, Richard Bolen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I think AUTO_INCREMENT is on a per-connection basis. So if you're doing >this across different database connections, it will reset to 0. no, that's not the case. just try it. crate a table with column id as auto_increment int and a

RE: AUTO_INCREMENT columns randomly restart counting from 1

2002-01-30 Thread Richard Bolen
I think AUTO_INCREMENT is on a per-connection basis. So if you're doing this across different database connections, it will reset to 0. Rich Hi there We have some table used as sequences. They only have 2 columns (ID, PID), with the AUTO_INCREMENT flag set for one of them (ID). By default

Re: AUTO_INCREMENT columns randomly restart counting from 1

2002-01-30 Thread Paul DuBois
At 17:15 +0100 1/30/02, Andreas Schoelver wrote: >Hi there > >We have some table used as sequences. >They only have 2 columns (ID, PID), with the AUTO_INCREMENT flag set >for one of them (ID). Is the ID column one of the integer types? >By default the tables are empty! >The increment process is

AUTO_INCREMENT columns randomly restart counting from 1

2002-01-30 Thread Andreas Schoelver
Hi there We have some table used as sequences. They only have 2 columns (ID, PID), with the AUTO_INCREMENT flag set for one of them (ID). By default the tables are empty! The increment process is done by inserting a new record with a random value for the non-auto_increment column. After that th