On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 10:40:02AM -0600, Paul Fine wrote:
> I realize that this might be problematic/devastating if you had an AI PK and
> did this, however in my case there is no problem as there is no related data
> in the database yet lol.
> 
> My question is, how can I reset AI? For example I deleted several rows and
> now my AI starts with the AI number after the last row that was deleted. Ie.
> 1,2,3,4,9,10,11 when I want to start numbering at 5 not 9!

Use:
ALTER TABLE foo AUTO_INCREMENT = $x

Doesn't seem to be documented here, but it's in a comment at the
bottom:
http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/ALTER_TABLE.html

-- 
Chris

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