Re: Reseting the auto-increment number in a MySQL database.

On Jun 26, 2013, at 1:13 PM, Stuart Dallas <stuart@3ft9.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, 26 June 2013 at 18:07, Tedd Sperling wrote: >> Hi gang: >> >> I have a client where their next auto-increment number just jumped from 2300 to 1000000000 >> for reasons not understood. They want it set back. >> >> Options such as dropping the primary key and rebuilding the index is NOT possible -- this >> is a relational table thing. >> >> So, is there a way (programmatically) to set the next number in an auto-increment? >> >> Something like: >> >> alter table abc auto_increment = 2301; >> > > ALTER TABLE tbl AUTO_INCREMENT = 2301; > > -Stuart Thanks -- I needed confirmation on that. It is something that i don't want to do. Cheers, tedd _____________________ tedd@sperling.com http://sperling.com