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     1 1. What is the Sequence Updater
       
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     4 The Sequence updater is written to synchronize your PowerAdmin/DNS database 
       
     5 after you have manually inserted records into it. 
       
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     7 2. Why do I need that?
       
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    10 Because PowerAdmin uses the php-PEAR::DB library it is using sequence numbers. 
       
    11 A sequence number simply tells the application what will be the next ID 
       
    12 for insertion. Some of the mysql users are now shouting auto_increment.
       
    13 Yes auto_increment, but we cant use this here because we plan to use 
       
    14 PostGreSQL or Other db's that dont have auto_increment so we are stuck to
       
    15 using sequence numbers.
       
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    17 3. What does this mean?
       
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    20 This means that if you dont run this tool after you have been manually adding
       
    21 records, your database might be corrupted and PowerAdmin might be kicking
       
    22 you back with a lot of errors.
       
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    24 4. Ok, I got it, now what?
       
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    27 Put this file in your PowerAdmin directory. Login into PowerAdmin using the normal
       
    28 system. Now go to the url where you put it and done, the sequence numbers are
       
    29 updated.
       
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    31 5. Future versions
       
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    34 In all versions higher than 1.1.2 this function will be automatically there for
       
    35 administrators.
       
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    37 6. Contact
       
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    39 6. Further Info && Bugs
       
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    42 To contact us we refer you to http://www.poweradmin.org/ for the latest
       
    43 contact information.
       
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    45 7. Links and more information
       
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    48 http://www.poweradmin.org l     Our main site
       
    49 http://www.powerdns.com         PowerDNS
       
    50 http://www.ietf.org             Information about DNS
       
    51 http://poweradmin.sf.net        PowerAdmin @ SourceForge
       
    52 http://www.apache.org/          The Apache Webserver
       
    53 http://www.php.net/             PHP programming language
       
    54 http://www.mysql.com/           MySQL database server
       
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    58 Regards,
       
    59 The PowerAdmin Team
       
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