Sorry to say that does not help me, I also need a way to change the already existing autoincrement values/numbers...
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Browse All TopicsHi all MySQL devs...
I need to change the AutoInc values to several tables in my MySQL server.
This to several reasons. But I can not find any pointers how to make this possible.
I have, for example a table starting at 1 (id:1) and it' s ending at 98 (id:98).
Now I need this values to starting at 5001 and upwards, eg:
5001, 5002, 5003, 5004 and so on...
When inserting a new id, I need the counter to continue after 5098, and that would be 5099 in this case.
I need the counter to continue working as normal after the changes to new autoincrement series of numbers.
Hope you understand what I mean =)
Im using the Win32 Ed and MySQL Front as editor. I can however access the
mysql-nt.exe if this is needed.
Best regards Pelle in Sweden...
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by: Mr_PeerapolPosted on 2003-07-22 at 12:42:34ID: 8979761
If you already have existing data: UPDATE YourTable SET ID=ID+5000
IDs of newly inserted records will continue from the last one in the table.
You can also, for example: ALTER TABLE YourTable AUTO_INCREMENT=10000;
IDs of newly inserted records will start from 10000
Hope it helps,
Peerapol