Search the manual, check the archives, blah blah blah. This question was
answered yesterday. See forwarded message below.
dpk
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul DuBois" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Jay Fesco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Paul Reilly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 1:36 PM
Subject: RE: reset auto_increment?
> At 3:15 PM -0400 9/17/01, Jay Fesco wrote:
> > > Can someone tell me how to reset a column's auto_increment starting
point
> >> back to 0 in mysql ?
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> Paul
> >>
> >According to Paul DuBois on page 169 of MySQL by New Riders (which you
> >should buy):
> >
> >ALTER TABLE t
> > DROP i,
> > ADD i INT UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY
> >
> >Jay
>
> Actually, this will drop the column and renumber the rows sequentially.
>
> To just reset the sequence to 0 (well, to 1, since sequences start at 1),
> do this:
>
> ALTER TABLE t AUTO_INCREMENT = 1
>
>
>
> --
> Paul DuBois, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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