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• Don't get me started... (Score:1)

  by Alias (5735) on 2005.09.06 2:29 (#43085) Homepage Journal

  All this stuff about MySQL, and yet I seem to be the only person that gets pissed off about auto_increment and needs proper sequence support.
  
  The day that MySQL gets sequences, I'll stop calling it a piece of useless low-end shit. I promise.

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  • Re:Don't get me started... (Score:1)

    by tinman (2063)

    Heh, I remember a time when SQL Server (yes, the Microsoftian version) didn't have sequences. I was doing a porting project from Oracle and they actually ended up implementing sequences as a server side procedure. It was ghastly.
    • Re:Don't get me started... (Score:2)

      by lachoy (1663)

      does MSSQL (or Sybase for that matter) have sequences now? I thought you accomplished this action only through IDENTITY fields...
      • Re:Don't get me started... (Score:1)

        by tinman (2063)

        I haven't had reason to work with MS-SQL since so I am not sure. A bit of Googling reveals that they don't. To be fair, this was more of being used to the control and convenience of Oracle sequences than anything else.
    • Re:Don't get me started... (Score:1)

      by Alias (5735)

      *cough* DBIx::MySQLSequence *cough*
      • Re:Don't get me started... (Score:1)

        by tinman (2063)

        *sigh* project ended somewhere in 2002. Looking at the date submitted, it seems that I may have just missed its' arrival on CPAN.

        At least I'll be better informed in the future; thanks.