Hello,
A solution to my problem:
  "For an athlete's first entry in the database I need a column
   value of 1. The second performance entry of the same athlete
   would have a value of 2. And so on."
has been posted by Paul Dubois:

  ALTER TABLE tbl_name
     ADD seqnum INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
     ADD PRIMARY KEY (name, seqnum)

This worked perfectly and was very fast on a table with 2.6 million
records and 179,00 athletes.
Many thanks.
Bruce



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