At 22:34 +0100 12/27/02, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote:
>Sorry for this newbie question (my MySQL-book is at work).
>I want my ID field to start with value 1000 and (preferably)
>auto-increment to 2000 is this possible to specify in my table somehow?
This question is ambiguous. Do you mean that you want a starting value
of 1000, and for subsequent records to auto_increment by 1000 each time?
If so, you cannot ask MySQL to do that automatically.
Or do you mean that you want the normal increment-by-one behavior, but
you just want the first value to be 1000? If so, use a MyISAM table,
and declare it as follows:
CREATE TABLE tbl_name (column definitions here)
TYPE = MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT = 1000;
The final AUTO_INCREMENT = n clause causes the first record to be assigned
that value in the AUTO_INCREMENT column.
>(I know auto-increment, just how do I set the starting value).
>What would the appropriate SQL-sentence to update the table be?
>
>Cheers,
>
>Martin S.
>--
>Martin Skjoldebrand
>http://www.skjoldebrand.org
>
