1,000,000, posts

[dutchbb]

finally reached the magic number

Does anyone know how I can see who posted the 1,000,000 posts? We want to give him/her a free payed membership

[Andrew111888]

http://www.site.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1000000&postcount=1

[dutchbb]

http://www.site.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1000000&postcount=1

thanks

however the database show more posts and the statistics on forumhome less? How is this possible?

[Arsenik]

You probably deleted some post there and there... so using the postid as a reference wouldnt work. You would need to run a query to find out exactly.

This for example (where vb3_post is your post table...):

SELECT * 
FROM vb3_post 
WHERE visible = 1
ORDER BY postid
LIMIT 999999, 1

It will return the 1 000 000th post...

[dutchbb]

Great, thanks

[bullfrog45]

IT's a dream to me

[Thunderfall]

Welcome to the million posts club!

[Arkham]

Congratulations!!!

[TalkMilitary]

Congrats! Nice milestone to hit.

[LeeD]

Congrats - very nice!

[alexanderpas]

finally reached the magic number

You might want to check this thread too... http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=47430

[zombie_UC]

hola

[filburt1]

You probably deleted some post there and there... so using the postid as a reference wouldnt work. You would need to run a query to find out exactly.

This for example (where vb3_post is your post table...):

SELECT * 
FROM vb3_post 
WHERE visible = 1
ORDER BY postid
LIMIT 999999, 1

It will return the 1 000 000th post...

Order it by dateline, not post ID. All an ID is, at least in vBulletin's database, is a unique identifier for a row. It has no other special meaning. They simply ascend because that's what auto_increment does by default.

[Shining Arcanine]

To my knowledge never in the history of forum software has a post ever been made after a post with a higher ID number than it.

[filburt1]

If you drop and reapply auto_increment, it could start to fill in blank IDs. If you delete post ID 2, then reapply auto_increment, suddenly it could be filled with a new post.

If the dateline had millisecond precision, it could be used as the primary key instead (provided no two posts share the same post time to the millisecond). The point of an ID is to uniquely identify data, not to necessarily describe it.

(I'm taking a database design class, but I knew this going into it anyway)