From: Markus Fischer <markus@...>
Date: 2010-09-05T00:50:30+09:00
Subject: Re: ActiveRecord and incrementing the key

Hi,

On 04.09.2010 17:17, Abder-Rahman Ali wrote:
> How does the database server manage the incrementing of the key? What is
> meant here by the database server is what manages the incrementing of
> the key?
> 
> Is there an example that may make this point more clear. For example,
> the following "database server" increments......

You need to consult your database documentation how to achieve this; it
varies from one product to another. E.g. in MySQL it's using
"auto_increment" on the primary key [1]

HTH

[1] http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/example-auto-increment.html