Re: [PHP] database abstraction layer

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 5:49 AM, Jochem Maas <[email protected]> wrote:
> you can bet you ass that every other DB out there that's worth it's salt
> has atomic id incrementor functionality exposed in some way or other.
>
> @Rene: all that talk of maxId functions and random retries etc, etc, is complete pooh.
> don't do it, **please** use the proper tools provided by the DB in question.
>

i just checked how my 1 app that did generate over a million hits/day
(all with an insert for stats purposes)
for a few weeks handles the getMax issue, and i see i did use mysql's
auto_increment there.

i suppose the difference in syntax between sql servers for this one is
acceptable.