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Resetting Auto Increment?
Posted by: John Smith
Date: August 22, 2012 08:32PM

Alright, I'm very new to MySQL and I am using it in conjunction with PHP, which I am also rather inexperienced with. If I have a table where I delete rows, and an ID column with auto-increment, the incrementation simply continues as if nothing has happened. How can I make it fill in the blanks where there are holes?

For example, can I tell it to search from 1 on and insert any new rows starting at the minimum number missing? Or, even better can I reset all the current rows' ID's to just start at 1 and increment from there?

Is there any practical reason this would ever matter? How much would these types of processes slow down wait times on a web application?

Thanks in advance, any help is greatly appreciated!



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