RE: Changing LAST_INSERT_ID()/AUTO_INCREMENT()

2003-10-19 Thread Jason Williard
Thanks, Mark, for the syntax. I had actually played around enough to figure it out already and got it to work the way that I wanted to. I guess when I asked the question, I wasn't fully aware of what I was wanting. The LAST_INSERT_ID wasn't a major issue. I ended up using the following code:

Re: Changing LAST_INSERT_ID()/AUTO_INCREMENT()

2003-10-19 Thread Mark V
Hi Jason, For MyISAM tables only, you can manually set the auto increment counter using the syntax: ALTER TABLE table_name AUTO_INCREMENT = 1000 Keep in mind, however, that this does not change the value of the LAST_INSERT_ID() since it still represents the value last inserted. On a freshly crea

Changing LAST_INSERT_ID()/AUTO_INCREMENT()

2003-10-19 Thread Jason Williard
I have a ticketing system that sets the ID of the ticket as the LAST_INSERT_ID. By default, it was counting up from 0. I updated the ID of the last ticket to reflect a different numbering scheme (MM). I would like to automate this but I don't want to change the ID of a current ticket. I