Re: MySQL: Add Autoincrement Field?
| From: | Chad Guilette | Date: | Sat, 17 Feb 2001 03:16:35 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: MySQL: Add Autoincrement Field? | ||
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just add a field unique_id int auto_increment in the table...u dont have to
do anything more...it will start at 1 and every time a new record is added
to the table this value will be incremented....
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Oien" <jeff@webdesigns1.com>
To: "PHP" <php-general@lists.php.net>
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 7:10 PM
Subject: [PHP] MySQL: Add Autoincrement Field?
> I have an existing database from a flat file that I
> imported into a MySQL table. Some of the title
> fields are duplicates - songs with the same name
> from different song books. So if I want to delete
> a record by title, I'll end up deleting all songs with
> that title. Is there a way I can add a unique id field
> and have it automatically generate a unique number to
> each record? Hope that made sense.
> Jeff Oien
>
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