From: Dan Nelson
Date: January 9 2002 10:08pm
Subject: Re: primary key that doesn't autoincrement
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In the last episode (Jan 09), D Woods said:
> I'm a novice at setting up a mysql database and don't know the answer to
> this. I usually set up my primary keys as autoincrementing ID fields. Now I
> need to have a primary key that isn't an autoincrementing field as I want to
> store the CFTOKEN and use it as the primary key. Can I not have a
> non-autoincrementing primary key in mysql?

Sure.  Just leave off the AUTO_INCREMENT when you create the field.

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	Dan Nelson
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