MySQL ROW_COUNT after REPLACE - mysql

I'm getting some odd values for ROW_COUNT after a REPLACE. In the example below, the second REPLACE returns 2 not 1. Can anyone explain why? This happens on both MySQL 5.6 and 5.7
create table test(
id int not null primary key,
d int not null unique
);
replace into test(id,d) values(1,1);
select row_count(); -- returns 1
replace into test(id,d) values(1,1);
select row_count(); -- returns 2... why?

Actually the behavior is very well documented:
For REPLACE statements, the affected-rows value is 2 if the new row
replaced an old row, because in this case, one row was inserted after
the duplicate was deleted.

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insert many rows, LAST_INSERT_ID return 1 [duplicate]

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MySQL LAST_INSERT_ID() used with multiple records INSERT statement
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Have:
1. create DB
2. create Table
3. insert 3 rows
4. select LAST_INSERT_ID()
Here test code:
DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS TEST;
CREATE DATABASE TEST;
USE TEST;
CREATE TABLE test (
id INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
age INT
);
INSERT INTO test (age) VALUES (1), (2), (3);
SELECT LAST_INSERT_ID();
Why LAST_INSERT_ID() return 1 ?
Excepted: 3
How to get valid LAST_INSERT_ID() ?
The MySQL documentation clearly explains this behavior:
With no argument, LAST_INSERT_ID() returns a BIGINT UNSIGNED (64-bit) value representing the first (emphasis mine) automatically generated value successfully inserted for an AUTO_INCREMENT column as a result of the most recently executed INSERT statement. The value of LAST_INSERT_ID() remains unchanged if no rows are successfully inserted.
The first value generated by the auto increment sequence in the insert was 1, not 2 or 3, so the value 1 gets returned.
I think the confusion you have is around the name LAST_INSERT_ID. The "last" part refers to the most recent insert statement, not the most recent id value within that insert.

Two autoincrements columns or autoincrement and same value in other column

I need two columns in table that would have same value on insert. Is there any way to do it from database side?
So you want to let one column use the auto_increment feature, but make another column in the same table also have the same value?
I can't think of a reason you would need this feature. Perhaps you could explain what you're trying to accomplish, and I can suggest a different solution?
A trigger won't work for this. It's a chicken-and-egg problem:
You can't change any column's value in an AFTER trigger.
But the auto-increment value isn't set yet when a BEFORE trigger executes.
It also won't work to use a MySQL 5.7 GENERATED column:
CREATE TABLE MyTable (
id INT AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
why_would_you_want_this INT GENERATED ALWAYS AS (id)
);
ERROR 3109 (HY000): Generated column 'why_would_you_want_this'
cannot refer to auto-increment column.
You can't do it in a single SQL statement. You have to INSERT the row, and then immediately do an UPDATE to set your second column to the same value.
CREATE TABLE MyTable (
id INT AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
why_would_you_want_this INT
);
INSERT INTO MyTable () VALUES ();
UPDATE MyTable SET why_would_you_want_this = LAST_INSERT_ID()
WHERE id = LAST_INSERT_ID();
You could alternatively generate the ID value using some other mechanism besides AUTO_INCREMENT (for example a Memcached incrementing key). Then you could insert the new value in both columns:
INSERT INTO MyTable (id, why_would_you_want_this) VALUES ($gen_id, $gen_id);
Define a before or after insert trigger and assign the value of the 2nd field in the trigger.
If the 1st field is an auto increment column, then you need to use an after insert trigger. If your application assigns value to the 1st field, then you can use a before insert trigger.
However, I would no necessarily duplicate the value on insert. You can leave the 2nd field as null on insert, which would mean that its value is the same as the 1st field's. The only drawback of this approach is that it may be more difficult to create joins on the 2nd field.
You can do this in one query by using the primary key (assumed to be id) and setting your column (assumed to be columnName):
"INSERT INTO tableName SET `columnName` = (SELECT MAX(x.id) FROM tableName x)+1"
This will not work if you have deleted the most recent primary key row however. To get past this, you can insert into the id as well:
"INSERT INTO tableName SET `columnName` = (SELECT MAX(x.id) FROM tableName x)+1, `id`= (SELECT MAX(x.id) FROM tableName x)+1"
However, this solution has the downside (or upside depending on the case) of reusing primary key values that have already been deleted.
suggested way:
To use the actual auto_increment value, you can do this:
"INSERT INTO tableName SET `columnName` = (SELECT `AUTO_INCREMENT` FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES WHERE TABLE_SCHEMA = 'db_name' AND TABLE_NAME = 'table_name')"
Sources that helped me solve this: Prashant Pimpale's answer

Insert only when auto-increment id is not equal 6(for example)?

I have a table with 3 fields: Id(PK,AI), Name(varchar(36)), LName(varchar(36)).
I have to insert name and last name, Id inserts automatically because of it's constraints,
Is There a way to Jump id auto increment value when it reaches 6?
for instance do this 7 times:
Insert Into table(Name, LName) Values ('name1', 'lname1') "And jump id to 7 if it is going to be 6"
It may sound stupid to do this but I have the doubt.
Also Jump and do not record id 6.
record only, 1-5, 7,8,9 and so on
What I want to achieve starts from a Union:
Select * From TableNames
Union All
Select * From TableNames_general
In the TableNames_general I assign it's first value so that when the user sees the table for the first time it will be displayed the record I inserted.
The problem comes when the user inserts a new record, if the Id of the inserted record is the same as the one I have inserted it will be duplicated, that is why I want to achieve when the users inserts one record and if the last insert id already exists just jump that record. this is because I must have different ids due to its relationship among child tables.
Identity column generate values for you, And its best left this way, You have the ability to insert specific values in Identity column but its best left alone and let it generate values for you.
Imagine you have inserted a value explicitly in an identity column and then later on Identity column generates the same value for you, you will end up with duplicates.
If you want to have your input in that column then why bother with identity column anyway ??
Well this is not the best practice but you can jump to a specific number by doing as follows:
MS SQL SERVER 2005 and Later
-- Create test table
CREATE TABLE ID_TEST(ID INT IDENTITY(1,1), VALUE INT)
GO
-- Insert values
INSERT INTO ID_TEST (VALUE) VALUES
(1),(2),(3)
GO
-- Set idnentity insert on to insert values explicitly in identity column
SET IDENTITY_INSERT ID_TEST ON;
INSERT INTO ID_TEST (ID, VALUE) VALUES
(6, 6),(8,8),(9,9)
GO
-- Set identity insert off
SET IDENTITY_INSERT ID_TEST OFF;
GO
-- 1st reseed the value of identity column to any smallest value in your table
-- below I reseeded it to 0
DBCC CHECKIDENT ('ID_TEST', RESEED, 0);
-- execute the same commad without any seed value it will reset it to the
-- next highest idnetity value
DBCC CHECKIDENT ('ID_TEST', RESEED);
GO
-- final insert
INSERT INTO ID_TEST (VALUE) VALUES
(10)
GO
-- now select data from table and see the gap
SELECT * FROM ID_TEST
If you query the database to get the last inserted ID, then you can check if you need to increment it, by using a parameter in the query to set the correct ID.
If you use MSSQL, you can do the following:
Before you insert check for the current ID, if it's 5, then do the following:
Set IDENTITY_INSERT to ON
Insert your data with ID = 7
Set IDENTITY_INSERT to OFF
Also you might get away with the following scenario:
check for current ID
if it's 5, run DBCC CHECKIDENT (Table, reseed, 6), it will reseed the table and in this case your next identity will be 7
If you're checking for current identity just after INSERT, you can use SELECT ##IDENTITY or SELECT SCOPE_IDENTITY() for better results (as rcdmk pointed out in comments)
Otherwise you can just use select: SELECT MAX(Id) FROM Table
There's no direct way to influence the AUTO_INCREMENT to "skip" a particular value, or values on a particular condition.
I think you'd have to handle this in an AFTER INSERT trigger. An AFTER INSERT trigger can't update the values of the row that was just inserted, and I don't think it can make any modifications to the table affected by the statement that fired the trigger.
A BEFORE INSERT trigger won't work either, because the value assigned to an AUTO_INCREMENT column is not available in a BEFORE INSERT trigger.
I don't believe there's a way to get SQL Server IDENTITY to "skip" a particular value either.
UPDATE
If you need "unique" id values between two tables, there's a rather ugly workaround with MySQL: roll your own auto_increment behavior using triggers and a separate table. Rather than defining your tables with AUTO_INCREMENT attribute, use a BEFORE INSERT trigger to obtain a value.
If an id value is supplied, and it's larger than the current maximum value from the auto_increment column in the dummy auto_increment_seq table, we'd need to either update that row, or insert a new one.
As a rough outline:
CREATE TABLE auto_increment_seq
(id INT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT) ENGINE=MyISAM;
DELIMITER $$
CREATE TRIGGER TableNames_bi
BEFORE INSERT ON TableNames
FOR EACH ROW
BEGIN
DECLARE li_new_id INT UNSIGNED;
IF ( NEW.id = 0 OR NEW.id IS NULL ) THEN
INSERT INTO auto_increment_seq (id) VALUES (NULL);
SELECT LAST_INSERT_ID() INTO li_new_id;
SET NEW.id = li_new_id;
ELSE
SELECT MAX(id) INTO li_max_seq FROM auto_increment_seq;
IF ( NEW.id > li_max_seq ) THEN
INSERT INTO auto_increment_seq (id) VALUES (NEW.id);
END IF;
END IF;
END$$
CREATE TRIGGER TableNames_ai
AFTER INSERT ON TableNames
FOR EACH ROW BEGIN
DECLARE li_max_seq INT UNSIGNED;
SELECT MAX(id) INTO li_max_seq FROM auto_increment_seq;
IF ( NEW.id > li_max_seq ) THEN
INSERT INTO auto_increment_seq (id) VALUES (NEW.id);
END IF;
END;
DELIMITER ;
The id column in the table could be defined something like this:
TableNames
( id INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL DEFAULT 0 PRIMARY KEY
COMMENT 'populated from auto_increment_seq.id'
, ...
You could create an identical trigger for the other table as well, so the two tables are effectively sharing the same auto_increment sequence. (With less efficiency and concurrency than an Oracle SEQUENCE object would provide.)
IMPORTANT NOTES
This doesn't really insure that the id values between the tables are actually kept unique. That would really require a query of the other table to see if the id value exists or not; and if running with InnoDB engine, in the context of some transaction isolation levels, we might be querying a stale (as in, consistent from the point in time at the start of the transaction) version of the other table.
And absent some additional (concurrency killing) locking, the approach outline above is subject to a small window of opportunity for a "race" condition with concurrent inserts... the SELECT MAX() from the dummy seq table, followed by the INSERT, allows a small window for another transaction to also run a SELECT MAX(), and return the same value. The best we can hope for (I think) is for an error to be thrown due to a duplicate key exception.
This approach requires the dummy "seq" table to use the MyISAM engine, so we can get an Oracle-like AUTONOMOUS TRANSACTION behavior; if inserts to the real tables are performed in the context of a REPEATABLE READ or SERIALIZABLE transaction isolation level, reads of the MAX(id) from the seq table would be consistent from the snapshot at the beginning of the transaction, we wouldn't get the newly inserted (or updated) values.
We'd also really need to consider the edge case of an UPDATE of row changing the id value; to handle that case, we'd need BEFORE/AFTER UPDATE triggers as well.

Insert and select the id of a unique element in one query

I have a simple table like this
CREATE TABLE authid(
id INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
authid VARCHAR(128) NOT NULL UNIQUE,
PRIMARY KEY(id)
);
Now if I insert a value with
INSERT INTO authid(authid) VALUES('test');
It will work fine and return the inserted id the first time, but if I do it again when the authid already exists (notice that we have authid marked as UNIQUE) it will return an error.
Is there a way achieve this this in one SQL statement: Insert it, get the id and if it already exists, still get the id.
Take a look at this: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/insert-on-duplicate.html
If you're using MySQL 5.0 or higher you can use the "INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE" syntax. You may be able to combine that with LAST_INSERT_ID() (I'm not positive about that)
So:
insert into authid (authid) values ('test') on duplicate key update id=LAST_INSERT_ID(id), authid='test';
select LAST_INSERT_ID();
Well indeed if you try to insert 2 times the same value in a UNIQUE field, it won't work, that's the point of UNIQUE fields.
If I understand well, you want to know if it's possible whether to use an INSERT or an UPDATE statement depending on the existance of an item or not ? Then you need 2 queries, 1 to test existence, the other to insert new value or update existing one
Insert the value conditionally (i.e. if it doesn't exist). Whether the insert takes place or not, by the end of the statement the result will be the same: the value will be in the table. So, just select the ID of the row that matches that value. Or, speaking in SQL, like this:
INSERT INTO authid (authid)
SELECT 'test'
WHERE NOT EXISTS (
SELECT *
FROM authid
WHERE authid = 'test'
);
SELECT id
FROM authid
WHERE authid = 'test'
;

remove gaps in auto increment

Say I have a MySQL table with an auto incrementing id field, then I insert 3 rows. Then, I delete the second row. Now the id's of the table go 1,3. Can I get MySQL to correct that and make it 1,2 without having to write a program to do so?
MySQL won't let you change the indexing of an Auto-Index column once it's created. What I do is delete the Auto-Index column and then add a new one with the same name, mysql will index the newly generated column with no gaps. Only do this on tables where the Auto-Index is not relevant to the rest of the data but merely used as a reference for updates and deletes.
For example I recently did just that for a table containing proverbs where the Auto-Index column was only used when I updated or deleted a proverb but I needed the Auto-Index to be sequential as the proverbs are pulled out via a random number between 1 and the count of the proverbs, having gaps in the sequence could have led to the random number pointing to a non-existant index.
HTH
Quoting from The Access Ten Commandments (and it can be extensible to other RDBMS: "Thou shalt not use Autonumber (or Auto Incremental) if the field is meant to have meaning for thy users".
The only alternative I can think of (using only MySQL) is to:
Create a trigger that adds the row number to a column (not the primary key)
Create a procedure to delete rows and update the row number (I couldn't make this work with triggers, sorry)
Example:
create table tbl_dummy(
id int unsigned not null auto_increment primary key,
row_number int unsigned not null default 0,
some_value varchar(100)
);
delimiter $$
-- This trigger will add the correct row number for each record inserted
-- to the table, regardless of the value of the primary key
create trigger add_row_number before insert on tbl_dummy
for each row
begin
declare n int unsigned default 0;
set n = (select count(*) from tbl_dummy);
set NEW.row_number = n+1;
end $$
-- This procedure will update the row numbers for the records stored
-- after the id of the soon-to-be-deleted record, and then deletes it.
create procedure delete_row_from_dummy(row_id int unsigned)
begin
if (select exists (select * from tbl_dummy where id = row_id)) then
update tbl_dummy set row_number = row_number - 1 where id > row_id;
delete from tbl_dummy where id = row_id;
end if;
end $$
delimiter ;
Notice that you'll be forced to delete the records one by one, and you'll be forced to get the correct primary key value of the record you want to delete.
Hope this helps