Hi Bob,
I don't think that's true. I think you can have it not autoincrement and
supply the primary key value yourself when you insert a row. In fact, you
have to do that if the primary key is one of the text data types since
autoincrement doesn't make any sense in that context.
Pete
On Mon,
Oh right duh that makes sense. I have no idea where I got that.
Bob
On Jan 17, 2012, at 11:47 AM, Pete wrote:
Hi Bob,
I don't think that's true. I think you can have it not autoincrement and
supply the primary key value yourself when you insert a row. In fact, you
have to do that if the
Hi all.
I am a little bit concerned with defining integer types. The manual defines INT
as using 4 bytes for storage, for a maximum of 4294967296 values. However, I
read somewhere (possibly here) that for auto incrementing keys I should use
int(64) the maximum allowed. Does that mean that my
Upon further investigation, I see that the number supplied as an argument to
the data type is the actual number of digits or significant bits. I guess for
my purposes bigint is all I will need for things like uniqueid's. I can write
an overflow function at some point that will use vacated
Rochefoucauld)
From: Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com
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Subject: mySQL integer types
Hi all.
I am a little bit concerned with defining integer types. The manual defines INT
as using 4
Hi Bob,
Int(64) refers to the external display of a column, not its internal
storage space. As you mentioned INT takes 4 bytes of storage but its
external display format can be up 10 chars.
I guess if you're really concerned about it, you could use BIGINT but there
is no theoretical software
On Jan 16, 2012, at 12:56 PM, Pete wrote:
In SQLite, if you define an INTEGER PRIMARY KEY column with AUTOINCREMENT
keyword, primary key values are always allocated as the next highest value
for the table, but if you omit the AUTOINCREMENT, then values freed up by
deleted rows may get
I remember in Trevor's original DB abstraction library (before SQL Yoga) he
used a manual indexing method, instead using a special table of indexes for
each table that is used. That allowed the changing the actual value of the
keys if needed. Automatic indexing is a feature that is not mandatory,
