On 21-Mar-01 roger westin wrote:
> Hi there,
> Question:
> Whats the Easiest way to insert an AUTO_INCREMENT column into an existing
> table,
> the new field will take over the primary key and the index.
>
>
alter table da_table drop primary key, drop old_id;
alter table da_table add id int not null auto_increment primary key first;
Regards,
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