Posted by Jim Michaels on 01/11/06 12:23

I tried having two of them in the same table and MySQL doesn't allow it.
one of them was the primary key.
"Pat Farrell" <pfarrell@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> John McClumpha wrote:
>> is there a simple (quick) way to increase the value of an integer
>> field in a nominated row by 1 other than first having to retrieve the
>> value and then UPDATE the appropriate field? - similar to doing a
>> $Variable++ in PHP?
>
> Why not use the autoincrement feature of MySql?
>
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> Pat
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