Once again...
ALTER TABLE table1 AUTO_INCREMENT = 500 Dan On Monday, July 29, 2002, at 10:44 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > rite, > > my primary key column ("id") is set to auto_increment as usual which is > very > handy. But when I delete a row, the auto_increment just keeps > incrementing > and there's this 'hole' left where I deleted the row! > > Apart from this looking ugly, it poses another problem. In my PHP script > where I can add new rows, I query the table, checking how many rows in > the > table altogether and set the new id as the next number, but this doesnt > work > if theres 'holes' in the id field, as the new record tries to overwrite > another id. > > So I've 2 questions > 1) Can the next auto_increment value be 'set' by a SQL query???? > 2) Can I get a SQL query to INSERT INTO the first 'hole' it finds in > the ID > column?? > > TIA > > > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php