Hi Paul, ALTER TABLE table_name ADD id_column_name INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY FIRST;
The FIRST word at the end just makes it the first column in the table if that's what you want. Hope that helps. Matt ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Maine" Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 7:08 PM Subject: HOWTO add Primary Key to Existing Table > How can I add an auto-incrementing primary key to an existing table? > > MySQL version 4.0 > > Thank You -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]