I would do a muli key PK with a after insert trigger to that would change widget_number 1 to 1000. Just my HO...
> I would use this combo as the primary key, but I hate doing joins with > multiple primary keys, so I'll also keep the widget_id for the purpose of > making joins easier. Why? Both of these fields are ints, so the key length would rather small. > I don't think the 'MAX' is optimized, though and maybe there is a better, > more robust way to do this which is already built into MySQL that I don't > know about. MAX should be fast, assuming the field is indexed. -- Rob Wultsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
