Hi Martin

What about using a REPLACE or UPDATE rather than a DELETE/INSERT?


Peter.


On 20 May 2002, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It's kind of embarrasing this, but ...
> How do I resuse autoincremented values after a delete? Do I specify it
> in the table somehow?
>
> Like _not_ having
>
> table
> 1       cat
> 2       dog
> 4       zebra
> 9       elephant
>
> after a few deleted animals. Preferably
>
> 1       cat
> 2       dog
> 3       zebra
> 4       elephant
> 5       snake
> etc
>
> As I said it's embarrasing ... and I didn't even had a bad fall or
> anything, and I can't find it on www.mysql.com.
>
> /M.
>
>
>
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