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[Daniel Convissor]

On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 01:59:31PM -0500, csnyder wrote:

> If for some reason your table can't include an AUTO INCREMENT field,
> perhaps you could just "SELECT id FROM table ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 1"
> to get the highest id number, and then add one to it.

And if you need to go that route, read up on MySQL's "FOR UPDATE" syntax.

--Dan

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