Re: AUTO_INCREMENT problems
| From: | J.F.Kishor | Date: | Fri, 18 Jan 2002 04:39:52 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: AUTO_INCREMENT problems | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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hello,
I think the following may solve your problem.
alter table patients change id id mediumint (9) default 0 not null primary
key auto_increment;
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Phil Schwarzmann wrote:
> I have an exsisting table without any rows. I tried to add a new column
> to it and make it an "auto increment" column. But when I do I get
> this...
>
> ALTER TABLE patients CHANGE id id MEDIUMINT (9) DEFAULT not null
> AUTO_INCREMENT
>
> MySQL said: You have an error in your SQL syntax near '' at line 1
>
> ..what did i do wrong?
>
> Thanks!
>