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How can reset a auto_incremet collumn so it starts from 1

TIA

Jul 19 '05 #1
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I came across this same problem in Paul DuBois's excellent book MySQL, pp.
142 - 143. The process is to drop the auto_increment column and then add it
back again:

ALTER TABLE table
DROP column,
ADD column INT UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT NOT NULL,
AUTO_INCREMENT = 1;
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Hi *

How can reset a auto_incremet collumn so it starts from 1

TIA

Jul 19 '05 #2
I came across this same problem in Paul DuBois's excellent book MySQL, pp.
142 - 143. The process is to drop the auto_increment column and then add it
back again:

ALTER TABLE table
DROP column,
ADD column INT UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT NOT NULL,
AUTO_INCREMENT = 1;
"Nico v. Rossum" <n.*********@ch ello.nl> wrote in message
news:Gx******** **************@ amsnews03.chell o.com...
Hi *

How can reset a auto_incremet collumn so it starts from 1

TIA

Jul 19 '05 #3

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