Thanks everybody for your advice. I think I see my problem a little better now

From what everybody says, there seems to be a better way to do this -- let me explain what I'm doing:

We have a registration process for users. Users are not really registered until they confirm their registration after they get an email.

So this table that I originally asked about is for the temporary database. I need to give the user a "temporary ID" that he can use when confirming. Only upon confirmation does the user gets a real userid.

The reason for the arbitrary maximum was because we don't have much resource on this particular host machine -- we wanted to keep the data stored there the bare minimum, or at least fixed.

But as I read everybody's advice it seems that simply inserting the new record is the way to go. maybe we'll clean up the table every 2 weeks or so.

However, I still need a way to get the ID -- I will try what Asim wrote later when I get back to it.

If there's better ways to do this, please let me know

This has been most helpful. Thank you all for your help

In reply to Re: Cycle through primary key with DBI by lestrrat
in thread Cycle through primary key with DBI by lestrrat

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