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I have a MySQL table with an auto increment primary key. I deleted some rows in the middle of the table. Now I have, for example, something like this in the ID column: 12, 13, 14, 19, 20. I deleted the 15, 16, 17 and 18 rows.
I want to reassign / reset / reorder the primary key so that I have continuity, i.e. make the 19 a 15, the 20 a 16, and so on.
How can I do it?
You could drop the primary key column and re-create it. All the ids should then be reassigned in order.
However this is probably a bad idea in most situations. If you have other tables that have foreign keys to this table then it will definitely not work.