[Cialug] phpmysql ?

[albus]

I'm working at setting up a RADIUS server using MySql to hold the user name 
and password info.
As it goes with churn I can see already that as time goes on it will get 
totally out of sequence. Which
I guess isn't a big deal, I hope anyways.

But I thought in time I might want to reindex it after it's out of sequence.

Maybe I don't need to worry about it at all
Mostly it was for easy readability for the other half, not the better half.
Cause I can already hear it, "Why aren't these damned things in numerical 
order"

That's the why.

But if it doesn't make a difference to MySql then I'm not going to worry 
about it.

Joel

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nathan C. Smith" <smith@ipmvs.com>
To: <cialug@cialug.org>
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 1:57 PM
Subject: RE: [Cialug] phpmysql ?


> You mean you want the id column to be consecutive starting at a certain
> number?
>
> In most cases it isn't a good idea to mess with id columns, especially if
> they are a foreign key in use in another table.
>
> Assuming it is your table and you made it and the id column does not 
> appear
> in another table, why not copy the table into a new, temporary table, 
> delete
> and then recreate the original table?
>
> If what you are after is an always consecutively numbered column (why?) 
> you
> could just add a new column and renumber it consecutively in whatever 
> order
> you like whenever you feel like it.
>
> Alternatively, you could tell us what you are actually trying to 
> accomplish
> and maybe we could deliver some ideas on how to achieve that.
>
> -Nate
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: albus [mailto:albus@iowaconnect.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 1:46 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Group
> Subject: [Cialug] phpmysql ?
>
>
>
> Is there no way to reindex the id column in phpmysql for a mysql database
> table?
>
> I've tried about every thing to reindex them.
>
> Next step, delete the table and redo it in a text editor. There has to be 
> a
> better way.
>
> Joel
>
>
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