[PHP] Inserting records in a particular way in MySQL

[Phillip S. Baker]

Greetings all,

I have some PHP code that is inserting records into a DB.
Most of this is auto increment.

However I know there is allot of breaks in the sequencing.

I am wondering if there is some way to write the SQL code to search through the existing records in the DB and to find where the next available ID is instead of just inserting the next sequence.

So for example if the ID's are.

20453
20454
20458
20459

It would let me know that 20455 is available for use and use the ID number instead of using 20460
Thanks all.


Phillip

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