Hi everybody!
I use MySQL database and PHP, when i delete rows from table with auto_incremet primary key, if i dlete rows with id=1, id=2, id=3, id=4,id=5 the auto_increment point to 6. i want it point to 1.
second problem.
a table with id(s) like this: 1,2,5,6,8,11,24.
i want to fill first smallest free id like 3, then fill 4,7,9,10 and so ..
any mysql syntax?
i have done it with php script but slow and get time out 30 s.
i configured php.ini to 3000s to execute the removing to the end.
please help i will appreciate it.
tanks.

why do you want to have it from the 1? well, if you want to reset index values, you have to use this sql query:

TRUNCATE table tbl_name

this command will delete everything from the table and start again from 1.... DELETE just does the same but keeps the current auto_increment value....

to solve this problem, you have to use someting more advanced, however i don't see any problems with keys not set to 1 after a delete :D



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an auto increment primary key is incremented by one for every record you add into the table, regardless of whether or not there are gaps in the numbering (ie, when you have records 1, 2, 4, 6, 7 and insert a new records, it's PK number is 8).
i'm having a hard time figuring out why you'd want to give new records the same primary key as old deleted ones, but i guess you could get it to work if you wrote a function that checked to see what numbers were missing from the primary key column in the table, and then gave the lowest number to the function that inserts a record into a table giving the record the primary key that you earlier found to not be in use.

do note though that doing this would basicly negate the function of using auto incremented primary keys as you'd be using old ones instead of fresh unused ones, and it could do weird things to the visual output of a relational database if not ALL references in ALL tables to the old primary keys were deleted at the same time the records themselves with those primary keys are deleted.

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