There's a trick for using LAST_INSERT_ID() to generate sequences in MySQL. Quoting from the Manual: Create a table to hold the sequence counter and initialize it: mysql> CREATE TABLE sequence (id INT NOT NULL); mysql> INSERT INTO sequence VALUES (0); Use the table to generate sequence numbers like this: mysql> UPDATE sequence SET id=LAST_INSERT_ID(id+1); mysql> [...]
There's a lot of buzz around memcached. memcached is widely used, and has clients for many programming languages and platforms. TangentOrg have developed a memcached client in the form of MySQL UDFs (User Defined Functions). I wish to discuss the memcached functions for MySQL: if and how they should be used. Disclaimer: I do not [...]