Re: Can mSQL AUTO-INCREMENT a field with each INSERT to atable?

From: Warren Killian (killianw@wishard.edu)
Date: Mon Oct 04 1999 - 23:01:39 EST

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Hi Christopher,

There's an on-line tutorial that covers this very topic located at
http://www.hughes.com.au/extras/tutorials/sequence.html. Happy
documentation reading!

Christopher Stephens wrote:
> Sorry Greg, but I didn't understand this answer, apart from realising that
> what I want to do is possible (ie to turn an empty field in a large table
> into an ascending sequence of numbers).
> Can you give me concrete examples of how this would be done or point me at
> some appropriate documentation please?
>
> Many thanks, and sorry for being so dense.
>
> Chris
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