MySQL equivalent of Oracle's SEQUENCE.NEXTVAL

Question

I need to be able to generate run a query that will return the next value of ID on the following table:

CREATE TABLE animals (
     id MEDIUMINT NOT NULL AUT         


        

Answer 1

You could add your own MySQL function - as demonstrated at http://www.microshell.com/database/mysql/emulating-nextval-function-to-get-sequence-in-mysql/ - allowing you to do something like this:

SELECT nextval('sq_my_sequence') as next_sequence;