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Re: How to set auto_increment for MYSQL
Posted by: Rick James
Date: February 18, 2009 12:46AM

Well... auto_increment cannot have the form A001. But you could have a column with the INT AUTO_INCREMENT, then somehow concatenate 'A' and the value of the auto_increment. Perhaps something like...

CONCAT('A', LPAD(id, 3, '0')) AS NEWUSERID

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