I am writing from the ground up a feature for this one company in Georgia while I am in school. It is running on mysql, but I have encountered a problem (actually a few problems, which led to this problem). I use auto increment for the unique identifiers for each of my tables. Now when I insert into a table, all the examples of inserts tell me to type out all of my column names. This would not bother me so much if I could use stored procedures (my boss does not feel they are enterprise ready yet, and I would have to say that I agree with him). Since I cannot use stored procedures, I am writing the scripts in php in an include file and have php query the database, not a stored procedure. In terms of securing the data model (which I would have to say I am very proud of), this is not a good idea. Should anyone get a hold of the php code, they could easily figure out my entire data model, just not the primary keys.
Is there a way to insert into a table while skipping over a particular column without having to type out all the column names? For instance:
Insert into table1 values (id, info1, info2, info3); /* indiscriminate insert */
Insert into table1 (column2, column3, column4) values (info1, info2, info3); /* insert I have now */
Insert into table1 (all but column1) values (info1, info2, info3); /* insert I want */Any help would be appreciated.