Re: Resetting auto_increment

On 12/14/2010 1:02 PM, Ethan Rosenberg wrote:

At 12:38 PM 12/14/2010, Daniel Brown wrote:

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 12:34, Ethan Rosenberg <ethros@earthlink.net> wrote:

Dear List - Thanks for all your help. How do I reset auto_increment so that the primary key will start

from 1.

The primary key is now 2421. I have deleted all the data in the

table and

started over, and the primary key just increments from its previous

value.

Setting auto_increment=0 does not work for me, why I don't know.

    UPDATE tablename AUTO_INCREMENT=1;

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====== Daniel - Thanks. This is what I get - mysql> update Visit3 auto_increment=1; ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '=1' at line 1

Use 'ALTER tablename AUTO_INCREMENT=1' rather than 'UPDATE tablename AUTO_INCREMENT=1'. Toby