Re: newbee question

2005-08-27 Thread Peter Brawley
Ross Apologies for the typo, the snippet for finding the highest id should say SELECT id FROM tablename ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 1; PB -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.16/83 - Release Date: 8/26/2005 -- MySQL Ge

Re: newbee question

2005-08-27 Thread Peter Brawley
Ross >Using mysql with php I have a database that has a unique value >for the user id. when people get delete off the list I want the unique >numbers to compact down so. Generally it's a really bad idea to edit primary keys. If you absolutely must compact the key values, you can do it by al

Re: newbee question

2005-08-27 Thread Stijn Verholen
leegold wrote: On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 19:43:57 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Using mysql with php I have a database that has a unique value for the user id. when people get delete off the list I want the unique numbers to compact down so. user id 1 user id 4 user id 5 user id 7 user id 9 user id

Re: newbee question

2005-08-27 Thread leegold
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 19:43:57 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Using mysql with php I have a database that has a unique value for the > user id. when people get delete off the list I want the unique numbers to > compact down so. > > user id 1 > user id 4 > user id 5 > user id 7 > user id 9 > user

newbee question

2005-08-27 Thread ross
Using mysql with php I have a database that has a unique value for the user id. when people get delete off the list I want the unique numbers to compact down so. user id 1 user id 4 user id 5 user id 7 user id 9 user id 10 becomes user id 1 user id 2 user id 3 user id 4 user id 5 user id 6 I

RE: Newbee Question !

2001-01-25 Thread Khuon Tech
t; > Hope it helps - Jim > > > -Original Message- > > From: Khuon Tech [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 10:10 AM > > To: MySQL forum > > Subject: Newbee Question ! > > > > > > > > Dear lists members,

Re: Newbee Question !

2001-01-25 Thread John Jensen
You didn't say which operating system you are using, but I take it is a Unix type. I had a programmer install mysql on a Redhat Linux 6.2 system, but I ran into significant bugs while attempting to install php. I wanted to get phpMyAdmin installed, because myODBC proved seriously unreliable fo

RE: Newbee Question !

2001-01-25 Thread Khuon Tech
t; > Hope it helps - Jim > > > -Original Message- > > From: Khuon Tech [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 10:10 AM > > To: MySQL forum > > Subject: Newbee Question ! > > > > > > > > Dear lists members, &g

Newbee Question !

2001-01-25 Thread Khuon Tech
Dear lists members, I gonna download MySQL and PHP to install on my machine. But the problem is that I don't know which tarballs are required to do from mysql.com and php.net. I mean I would like to manage databases using HTML interface (MySQL/PHP). Any points or links to the web sites are high