It’s taken me ages to find out how to do this (what turns out to be a) relatively simple operation.
Here’s the problem. Table 1 has a user_id which is auto incremented by MYSQL. Table 2 has an auto incremented login_id but also requires the user_id. Here’s how we get one ID from one table to the other:
Simple! We can then refer to the LastID in Table 2
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November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am
“Could you not use MAX() to get the highest ID number?”
November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am
“Could do, but if someone else was updating the recordset at the same time apparently it could get a bit screwey, there’s several ways of doing it.”
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