Re: Get the next AUTO INCREMENT value for a column

[Paul DuBois]

At 9:01 -0700 5/4/02, Son Nguyen wrote:
>   CREATE table test1 (ID int NOT NULL AUTO INCREMENT, name text, value
>text, Primary Key (ID));
>
>   INSERT into test1 (name, value) values ("test1", "value1");
>
>   INSERT into test1 (name, value) values ("test2", "value2");
>
>   DELETE from test1 where ID=2;
>
>   How can obtain the CURRENT value of next ID AUTO INCREMENT value
>(which is 3 right now)
>
>
>
>
>         Son Nguyen
>mysql, query

You can't.  AUTO_INCREMENT values are not available until you generate
them.