Re: Adding and filling a new column

2003-07-19 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 19 July 2003 19:20, Jim McAtee wrote: > Interesting. In the case where you want to begin numbering existing rows > at 1, > > is it necessary to set the autoincrement number to that of the next, i.e: > > Alter Table X Auto_Increment = 201;

Re: Adding and filling a new column

2003-07-19 Thread Jim McAtee
Michael Satterwhite wrote: > > Are you saying that it will propogate through the _existing_ rows, or only > > on rows added later? > > It will number all existing rows and continue with rows added later. Interesting. In the case where you want to begin numbering existing rows at 1, is it necess

Re: Adding and filling a new column

2003-07-19 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 19 July 2003 18:17, Jim McAtee wrote: > Are you saying that it will propogate through the _existing_ rows, or only > on rows added later? It will number all existing rows and continue with rows added later. - ---Michael -BEGIN PGP SI

Re: Adding and filling a new column

2003-07-19 Thread Jim McAtee
Michael Satterwhite wrote: >> So I can add the column, and I can set it to have an auto_increment, but >> will that start out at 201? or will it start at 1 and propogate through? > > If you don't modify the table definition, it will start at 1 and propagate > throughout: e.g. Are you saying that

Re: Adding and filling a new column

2003-07-19 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 19 July 2003 17:17, Andrew Rothwell wrote: > So I can add the column, and I can set it to have an auto_increment, but > will that start out at 201? or will it start at 1 and propogate through? If you don't modify the table definition, it

Adding and filling a new column

2003-07-19 Thread Andrew Rothwell
Good day list, I hope that this is an easy one for you guys to help me with, I am relatively new to DB design, and I realized that I have left out a few very important Indexing and counting columns. So my question is this, What do I need to do to fill in new column, I would like to have it au