[thelist] auto-increment with mysql

[Frank]

At 03:36 PM 2003-07-18 +1000, you wrote:
>>Why an unsigned int, instead of simply int?
>
>One virtually never has negative values in an identity column. By using
>an unsigned int instead of an int, you're effectively doubling the
>number of values a column can have.


HA! That's pretty clever. I wouldn't have thought of it. Cool.


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