Does MySQL have an equivalent of SQL Server rowversion?

Question

I am migrating a SQL Server database schema over to MySQL. Some of the tables on SQL Server have a column of type rowversion. This is an integer value that is set when the r

Answer 1

The MySQL TIMESTAMP data type has the auto initialize and auto update features needed for optimistic concurrency tests. See, for example, http://www.mysqltutorial.org/mysql-timestamp.aspx