On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 09:38:16 -0400
Paul DuBois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> At 9:05 -0300 8/27/03, bernardaum wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I have a table with an auto_increment field. When I
> >delete all the record and insert a new one the
> >auto_increment field is not clean, its follows the
> >sequence.
> >
> >Can I restart this sequence? Start from 0 again?
> 
> Why bother?  MySQL doesn't care if there are gaps in the sequence.
> And if you're using the ID to relate records in the table to records
> in another table, you'll destroy the correspondence.

imho, he's talking about resetting auto_increment to 0, not about gaps in ID:
>When I --> delete all <-- the records ...

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WBR,
Antony Dovgal aka tony2001
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