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
>
>
>
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