On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 07:30:01PM -0500, Paul DuBois wrote:
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> At 1:36 AM +0200 6/15/01, Sven Huster wrote:
> >Hi there
> >
> >can i somehow easily recreate the auto_increment col if is was not
> >correctly set?
> >i just recognized that most rows contain "1" cause the primary key was
> >set
> >on the auto_increment col + another one.
> >so mysql only creates a entry > 1 if the other field was equal to
> >another row.
>
> Well, that's what's supposed to happen if you have a primary key
> or unique key on multiple columns where the last column is an
> AUTO_INCREMENT value. If you want your AUTO_INCREMENT column
> to have unique values for each row, then you could drop that
> index and set up a PRIMARY KEY on just the AUTO_INCREMENT column.
>
> Actually, I'm not sure I understand what you want to do, so I'm
> just guessing. If that doesn't answer your question, please
> clarify.
Hi
i want to fix the auto_increment col to have unique entries, but if i drop
the index
there are double entries in for the col, so i dont think it works just by
dropping the
key.
there is data in the table that i dont want to loose.
regards
sven
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