You got to be kidding! I am sure there's a better solution. Hassan
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tobias Asplund" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Hassan Shaikh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: < Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 9:43 PM Subject: Re: Resetting Auto_Increment > On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Hassan Shaikh wrote: > > > Hi, > > The following does not work for InnoDB tables. The manual says "The next AUTO_INCREMENT value you want to set for your table (MyISAM). " > > ALTER TABLE <table_name> AUTO_INCREMENT = <new_value>; > > > > Any suggestions for InnoDB? > > Insert a row with a custom value, then delete it, the next value insrted > will be value+1 of the value you juse inserted. > > Example below: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:tmp > CREATE TABLE ai (num INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARy KEY) TYPE=INNODB; > Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:tmp > INSERT INTO ai VALUES (NULL), (NULL), (NULL); > Query OK, 3 rows affected (0.02 sec) > Records: 3 Duplicates: 0 Warnings: 0 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:tmp > SELECT * FROM ai; > +-----+ > | num | > +-----+ > | 1 | > | 2 | > | 3 | > +-----+ > 3 rows in set (0.00 sec) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:tmp > INSERT INTO ai VALUES(10); > Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:tmp > DELETE FROM ai WHERE num=10; > Query OK, 1 row affected (0.01 sec) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:tmp > INSERT INTO ai VALUES(NULL); > Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:tmp > SELECT * FROM ai; > +-----+ > | num | > +-----+ > | 1 | > | 2 | > | 3 | > | 11 | > +-----+ > 4 rows in set (0.00 sec) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:tmp > \t > > > > > --- > avast! Antivirus: Inbound message clean. > Virus Database (VPS): 1/8/2004 > Tested on: 1/12/2004 11:26:18 PM > avast! is copyright (c) 2000-2003 ALWIL Software. > http://www.avast.com > > > > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
