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

1.) create table query
2.) Insert query
3.) Update query
4.) Select query for that table e.g. SELECT next_val FROM hib_sequence;
5.) Before each select update first, like this you can achieve similar

-- CREATE TABLE hib_sequence (next_val INT NOT NULL);
-- UPDATE hib_sequence SET next_val=LAST_INSERT_ID(next_val+1);
-- select last_insert_id();
-- INSERT INTO hib_sequence VALUES (0);

-- select next_val from hib_sequence;