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Jun 15.2007

How can I stop the auto increment just keep going up? How can I make it so it counts the amount of rows instead?

For example, if I had 3 rows (auto increments up to 3) and then decided to delete number 3, I want the auto increment to be 3 next time (because now theres only 2 rows left and 3 should be the next in the sequence) but instead 4 will be the next increment.

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@Chris_JJun 15.2007 — Just run the following sql query:

[code=php]ALTER TABLE tablename AUTO_INCREMENT = 3[/code]
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@r_soleauthorJun 15.2007 — hmm alright. Thanks
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@MichaelttkkJun 16.2007 — another possible solution I have been using is, you delete the autoincremented no/number and recreated it.

example, no firstname lastname (the table structure)

delete the no

then, recreated the no again(autoincremented etc.) before the firstname
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