Re: How MyISAM handle auto_increment

[mos]

At 04:46 PM 10/3/2011, you wrote:
>Hi, Folks: I have questions regarding how MyISAM handles 
>auto_increment clolumn? 1. is there a auto_increment counter for 
>MyISAM to assign a new value to auto_increment columns?

Yes

>   2. if MyISAM has the counter, is the counter stored in memory or 
> disk? Thnaks

It is stored with the table definition.  It is only reset to 0 when 
the table is (re)created. You can get the last AutoInc for the record 
that was just added by "Select Last_Insert_Id()". See 
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/example-auto-increment.html

Mike