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by BlueTemplar 2046 days ago
I've seen a situation where old IDs were re-used for new users, like we were about to run out of numbers or something… XD

And with former users coming back, of course expecting to have their IDs back too !

This being on a paper-first (often paper-only) database, with no locking process, where we also had the issue of new users being added at the same time, for the same ID.

If only I already had been through a database course at the time…

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I meant the internal auto increment id field - not the actual user id.

I think I just proved my point here.