On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Michael Gargiullo wrote:

> I have a table like so:
> 
> id -> auto increment
> name -> name
> 
> After I insert a new name
>   insert into mytable values('','Bob');
> 
> I need Bob's id returned.
 
Hey, wait -- you could write a program to do that, couldn't you!

And reading `perldoc DBD::mysql` would totally show you how!

(Hint -- search in the perldoc for 'insertid'.)
 

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Chris Devers

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