Auto-increment sequences are a common way to define a primary key in MySQL. This types of artificial keys, known as surrogate keys are commonly used by developers to quickly construct a database table. A common reason developers use artificial keys is due to the fact that most do not take the time to search for [...]

One of the most common used attributes in MySQL is definitely AUTO_INCREMENT. This is quite helpful when one needs to generate unique identities for the table rows. By default when a AUTO_INCREMENT column is the only column in a index, whether PRIMARY KEY or UNIQUE, it generates a single monotonic sequence of numbers : 1,2,3,4,… [...]