BAO RuiXian <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tuesday, February 17, 2004 11:32 AM said:
> If the id is auto increment, can't you use max(id) to get the last > inserted one? only if you are the absolute only person that will ever be connected to that db at one time. otherwise the answer is no. what if in between your INSERT INTO statement and your SELECT statement someone else writes a record? for a high traffic website it's very possible that someone will insert another record before you can turn around and read the table. does that help? chris. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
