florence florence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hope someone can guide me how to set the auto_increment for an integer and the
> value start with 1000?
> I know how to set the value start from 1 but don't know how to start from 1000
> or 2000 etc. Hope somebody can help me.
>
For MyISAM table you can use AUTO_INCREMENT option in CREATE TABLE or ALTER TABLE
statement:
http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/CREATE_TABLE.html
http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/ALTER_TABLE.html
If you use InnoDB tables, you should insert a dummy row with value wanted_value-1 (for
example, 999) and then delete this row.
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