[PHP-DB] Auto inc in MySQL

I know I'll get flamed for askign such a simple question, but here goes... I have a MySQL DB and wanna increment a field 'id_number' by one each time, to avoid creating duplicates... I've done it before, but can't remember how... Any ideas? Tris...

RE: [PHP-DB] Auto inc in MySQL

PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP-DB] Auto inc in MySQL I know I'll get flamed for askign such a simple question, but here goes... I have a MySQL DB and wanna increment a field 'id_number' by one each time, to avoid creating duplicates... I've done it before, but can't remember how... Any ideas? Tris

Re: [PHP-DB] Auto inc in MySQL

Tris, make the the field, id_number, an auto_increment field. [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 07/09/2003 07:44:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: David P. Giragosian/MDACC) Subject: [PHP-DB] Auto inc in MySQL I know I'll get flamed for askign such a simple question, but here goes

Re: [PHP-DB] Auto inc in MySQL

Stan Lemon wrote: Also, I believe in addition to AUTO_INCREMENT it has to be UNIQUE as well. Please correct me if I am wrong. No, just INDEX. UNIQUE will work fine, but I reccomend making it PRIMARY. -- The above message is encrypted with double rot13 encoding. Any unauthorized attempt to