I thought we were answering the question "how can I retrive the last row" -- though we never got a definition of what "last" meant. I assumed "last inserted".
Sure you can construct an example that doesn't work. But he didn't ask how NOT to do it. Don't you agree that using autoincrement properly guarantees retrieving the last inserted row? Or are you maintaining that is a false statement? I'd like to see an example to disprove it if you maintain that its false. Michael D. Black Senior Scientist NG Information Systems Advanced Analytics Directorate ________________________________ From: sqlite-users-boun...@sqlite.org [sqlite-users-boun...@sqlite.org] on behalf of Igor Tandetnik [itandet...@mvps.org] Sent: Monday, August 22, 2011 1:14 PM To: sqlite-users@sqlite.org Subject: EXT :Re: [sqlite] Last record in db On 8/22/2011 1:56 PM, Black, Michael (IS) wrote: > Ahhh...you didn't let autoincrement do it's job... Yes, quite intentionally, in order to emphasize the point that "record with the largest rowid" and "record inserted most recently" are not necessarily one and the same, whether or not AUTOINCREMENT was specified when the table was created. Of course it's possible to construct an example where the same record is both most recently inserted and has the largest rowid. But it's also possible to construct an example where these are two different records. -- Igor Tandetnik _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
