mysql - How to achieve unique auto-incremented id for rows across multiple tables?

Question

I've got several tables in a database, let's say they're called table1, table 2, etc. All tables have a primary key column 'id' with auto-increment.

In my current configuration it happens that when inserting into table1, the generated id is 1. Afterwards when inserting into table2, the generated id happens to be 1 as well.

How to force absolutely unique ids across all tables in a database? I want when inserting into table1, generated id to be 1, and if afterwards inserting into table2, generated id be 2?

I used mysql server on some machine and did not have this problem, but when I installed mysql on my local machine, it started to occur. So I guess it must be some kind of a setting that is applied to the mysql configuration?

Thank you

Answer 1

you can use UUID.

INSERT INTO mytable(id, name) VALUES(SELECT UUID(), 'some data');

Read more about UUID: http://mysqlbackupnet.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Using%20MySQL%20With%20GUID%20or%20UUID