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Peter Samuel (psamuel@ind.tansu.com.au)
Fri, 10 Jan 1997 11:32:53 +1100 (EST) 

Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 11:32:53 +1100 (EST)
From: Peter Samuel <psamuel@ind.tansu.com.au>
Subject: Re: [mSQL] _seq feature request
Message-Id: <Pine.GSO.3.95.970110113112.17266M-100000@mussel.ind.tansu.com.au>

On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Anderson, Hans wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Randy Jay Yarger wrote:
>
> >On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, Doug Salot wrote:
> >
> >> The "interesting" feature about _seq is that it is unique for a table.
> >> I think what you really want is just an atomic increment. mysql
> >> allows you to do things like "update foo set counter=counter+1"
> >> which does what you want, but I don't remember if mSQL has this
> >> feature (yet).
> >
> >I would bear Bambi's child if he did/would add this feature.
> >(Metaphorically speaking of course. ;) )
>
> I'd offer to be an uncle, or something, as I would like this as well. I do
> remember seeing the new 2.0 features list that this is in the works, but
> there was a patch to 1.0.16 that would do this, it's in the 1.0 FAQ, but
> the link is dead. I looked high and low, but to no avail.

There are a number of sites that mirror the FAQ. They're mentioned in
the FAQ:

    Are there any mirror sites for mSQL?

    The following sites mirror the mSQL FAQ:

       * http://www.swl.fh-heilbronn.de/msql

         Thanks to Tobias Haecker Thanks to Tobias Haecker tobi@swl.fh-heilbronn.de.

       * http://cscsun1.larc.nasa.gov/~beowulf/msql/msql_faq.html

         Thanks to Jeff Rowe <beowulf@cscsun4.larc.nasa.gov>.

    The following sites mirror the mSQL 1.x software distribution:

       * ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/databases/msql/

         Thanks to Yiorgos Adamopoulos <adamo@noc.ntua.gr>.

       * ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/databases/msql

         Thanks to Jesper Hagen <hagen@iesd.auc.dk>

       * ftp://ftp.nerosworld.com/pub/SQL/msql

         Thanks to David Perry <deperry@nerosworld.com>.

Regards
Peter
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Uniq Professional Services Peter.Samuel@ind.tansu.com.au
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