Re: Auto increment sequence

2003-10-27 Thread bluejack
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 15:24:37 -0500, Priyanka Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there a way in mYSQL to just define an auto increment sequence rather than defining a field inside a table which is an auto increment. Bsically I need some functionality similarto that in ORACLE where

Auto increment sequence

2003-10-27 Thread Priyanka Gupta
Is there a way in mYSQL to just define an auto increment sequence rather than defining a field inside a table which is an auto increment. Bsically I need some functionality similarto that in ORACLE where CREATE SEQUENCE seq INCREMENT BY 1 START WITH 1 MINVALUE 1; basically creates a seq that

Re: auto-increment & sequence question

2001-06-27 Thread Gunnar von Boehn
thank you all for your help, this was the explanation I needed, >LAST_INSERT_ID() with an argument creates a value that can be treated >just like it's an AUTO_INCREMENT value. That means you can call >LAST_INSERT_ID() without an argument later in the current session to >retrieve the value you

Re: auto-increment & sequence question

2001-06-26 Thread Paul DuBois
At 1:49 PM +0200 6/26/01, Gunnar von Boehn wrote: >Hello everybody, > > >I thing, that I have a problem that needs a sequence and that >auto-increment can't do the job this time. > >I already consulted the manual and the mailarchive. >I saw several different proposals, now I'm a bit confused and d

Re: auto-increment & sequence question

2001-06-26 Thread Kyle Hayes
On Tuesday 26 June 2001 04:49, Gunnar von Boehn wrote: > Hello everybody, > > > I thing, that I have a problem that needs a sequence and that > auto-increment can't do the job this time. > > So, I think the only way to solve this is a sequence table. > > Lets take a single row, integer value for h

Re: auto-increment & sequence question

2001-06-26 Thread Siomara Pantarotto
olumn . Siomara PS: This is just a suggestion of someone that once got this issue. >From: Gunnar von Boehn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: auto-increment & sequence question >Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 13:49:33 +0200 > >Hello ev

Re: auto-increment & sequence question

2001-06-26 Thread Matthias Urlichs
At 13:49 +0200 2001-06-26, Gunnar von Boehn wrote: >Lets take a single row, integer value for holding the sequence: >CREATE TABLE sequence( > id int4; >); That works, though I would use a single table for all sequences, not a new table per sequence. The other solution would be to do check the

auto-increment & sequence question

2001-06-26 Thread Gunnar von Boehn
Hello everybody, I thing, that I have a problem that needs a sequence and that auto-increment can't do the job this time. I already consulted the manual and the mailarchive. I saw several different proposals, now I'm a bit confused and don't know exactly what the rigth way is to do it. Could s