Posted by Cujo on 07/27/06 15:21

Dimitri Marshall wrote:

> Now, the reason I'm doing this is so I can create unique IDs for the stuff
> in my database.

How is ORDER BY going to help you create unique id's ?

> I know there is probably another way to do this but I
> thought this was the easiest

There is only ONE way. Autoincrement.

> (I couldn't figure out the whole auto_increment
> thing.

There is nothing to figure out, really, besides reading the docs.
What exactly is your problem with auto increment ? I believe
it's worth learning how to do things like this properly.

If you are more precise on what you're having problems with,
i might be able to help ...

regards, f.

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