You both have excellent points, but order by id just provides a workaround. I would prefer to write to the DB in the correct order: append each new insert at the end of the DB.

So the question is more of how do I write to the db...

INSERT INTO support VALUES ('','$name',....)

the '' is becuase I have an autoincrement value set there. The id field does autoincrement properly, but instead of being at the end, is in the middle of the table some place. Someone mentioned that I may need to tell perl to tell myswl to write it at the 'end of the file' -- I want the tables to be written in order of id...

Thanks

In reply to Re: Re: EOF required before writing DB? by sdyates
in thread EOF required before writing DB? by sdyates

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