Question

I am using MySql for my database. I have found how to set a column’s starting autoincrement value when creating a table, but I need to know how to set a new starting value for an existing column. What does the liquibase script look like to do that?

Answer 1

The MySQL syntax is pretty straightforward:

ALTER TABLE mytable AUTO_INCREMENT = val ;

(Note that this is really a table attribute, not a column attribute. There can be only one column in a table declared to be AUTO_INCREMENT.)

This syntax isn’t supported in SQL Server or Oracle; Oracle doesn’t even have a concept of an “auto_increment” column, apart from a SEQUENCE object and a TRIGGER. SQL Server calls it an IDENTITY property. So I don’t know how this statement would be represented in “liquibase” syntax, other than specifying that this statement is native MySQL syntax.