there is a way:
delete the column
add the column
then the auto increment will start from 1 up to the number of records.
be careful! if there are records in other tables which refer the records
in this table - the one being modified - those records WILL NOT BE UPDATED.
and now your database is really broken.
you can postpone this problem for a very long time by using an unsigned
bigint (0 - 2**64-1)
note i said postpone, not eliminate.
hth
At 11:31 PM 7/7/01 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi
>ANy idea how i can get my auto_increment fields to renumber themselves
>after deletion of records so that they all get re-ordered and run
>consecutively from 1 to whatever without any numbers missing ?
>Please help if you know how to do this
>Thanks
>Keith White
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