Re: Probably Trivial: Finding Largest Primary Key used in Table

BTW, how do I do this in Perl using DBI and DBD::Sybase

I tried...

my $maxsth = $dbh->primary_key_info(undef, $dbuser, 'TABLE_NAME');
  die "Unable to prepare SELECT MAX Key statement $DBI::errstr"
    unless $maxsth;

  $getMaxKey = $maxsth->fetchall_arrayref
       || die "Couldn't get the MAX KEY $DBI::errstr";

....but $getMaxKey is not yet the value from "select max(keycol) from 
TABLE_NAME"


[email protected] wrote:

>First of all, a primary key can be a composite value, a string, or some
>other value that isn't simply incrementable.
>
>But if you want to limit yourself to tables that have numeric primary keys
>then a "select max(keycol) from table" will give you that information.
>HOWEVER, this is not a safe method in an environment with fairly high
>volume, as the max value is likely to change between the time you fetch the
>value and the time you want to insert the next entry.
>
>The usual technique is to use a key table which holds the next available
>key value, and get this value in a transaction.
>
>You can read more about this issue at http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=860
>
>Michael
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>[email protected]@peppler.org - 30/06/2005 13:16
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>Subject:    Probably Trivial: Finding Largest Primary Key used in Table
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>Hi All,
>
>This may sound trivial...but I've been trying to find out how to find
>the largest primary key that's been assigned/used within a table.
>
>I'm new to DB development while I have done some DBA.
>
>It would save me trouble when I want to keep control of the primary
>keys, make sure that when I insert a new record I can assign a unique
>primary key.
>
>I would like to do this using a perl script...not as some stored
>procedure or constraint so as to keep it as DB independent (regardless
>of Sybase, MySQL, Oracle, etc) as possible.
>
>Best Regards,
>Jay
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