[plug] auto-increment in mysql

[Daniel Pearson]

Arie,
Mind my ignorance - I'm just going off my somewhat limited knowledge from
Information Systems (Year 12 TEE subject that I did extremely well in ;)
which I have just completed in 2002. We briefly went over what indexes were,
but never went into detail. Is it possible for you to explain them to me,
and how they could be useful?

Regards,
Daniel Pearson

----- Original Message -----
From: "Arie Hol" <arie99 at ozemail.com.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 10:37 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] auto-increment in mysql


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> At 09:50 PM 01-01-2003 +0800, you wrote:
> >Is it not possible to have a concatenated primary key?
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Daniel
> >
>
> Better known as a 'compound' key, the auto_increment attribute is usually
> referred to as an index and in my experience is best implemented at the
> design stage before implementation.
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