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Re: How to force auto-increment field to increase monotonically
Posted by: Guelphdad Lake
Date: April 19, 2011 10:54PM

why does the value in the auto increment column matter? other than to provide a unique key when no natural primary key exists, the values in the primary key shouldn't have to be consecutive.

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