You do not want this really from the point you understood what a primary key does in a database
The PRIKEY is unqiue for a record and if the record does no longer exist his PRIKEY must never return Sample: * website * shop-products * you have prodid 500 costs 200$ * you delete the product * there are bookmarks out there * they NEVER should point to another product what costs 5.000 $ as sample in no rdbms auto_increment values are reused and if than you have found a hard bug Am 09.02.2011 12:41, schrieb Adarsh Sharma: > Dear all, > > I have an auto-increment column in Mysql database table. > Let's say the column has below values : > Now if i deleted some rows where id= 3 ,5 and 8 > > The data look like as : > > 1 > 2 > 4 > 6 > 7 > 9 > 10 > > I want to have it id's as > 1 > 2 > 3 > 4 > 5 > 6 > 7 > and next data is inserted right at 8 > Please help how to achieve it. -- Mit besten Grüßen, Reindl Harald the lounge interactive design GmbH A-1060 Vienna, Hofmühlgasse 17 CTO / software-development / cms-solutions p: +43 (1) 595 3999 33, m: +43 (676) 40 221 40 icq: 154546673, http://www.thelounge.net/
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