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# Introduction - Sequences

Introduction - Sequences -- Database sequences

## Description

Sequences are a way of offering unique IDs for data rows. If you do most of your work with e.g. MySQL, think of sequences as another way of doing `AUTO_INCREMENT`. It's quite simple, first you request an ID, and then you insert that value in the ID field of the new row you're creating. You can have more than one sequence for all your tables, just be sure that you always use the same sequence for any particular table. To get the value of this unique ID use nextId() , if a sequence doesn't exists, it will be created automaticlly.

Example 33-1. Using a sequence
    ...
    $id = $db->nextId('mySequence');
    // Use the ID in your INSERT query
    $res = $db->query("INSERT INTO myTable (id,text) VALUES ($id,'foo')");
    ...

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