Question

I have a table as follows, it has an ID and item name,order and type.

  +--------+----------------+-----------+---------+
  |  ID    |  ITEM          |   ORDER   |  TYPE   |
  +--------+----------------+-----------+---------+
  |  1     |  Banana        |    2      |  Fruit  |
  +--------+----------------+-----------+---------+
  |  2     |  Apple         |    1      |  Fruit  |
  +--------+----------------+-----------+---------+
  |  3     |  Orange        |    4      |  Fruit  |
  +--------+----------------+-----------+---------+
  |  4     |  Lemon         |    3      |  Fruit  |
  +--------+----------------+-----------+---------+

If I were to delete say Lemon the ORDER would be 1,2,4. Is there a method to reindex the remaining items to get the following result?

  +--------+----------------+-----------+---------+
  |  ID    |  ITEM          |   ORDER   |  TYPE   |
  +--------+----------------+-----------+---------+
  |  1     |  Banana        |    2      |  Fruit  |
  +--------+----------------+-----------+---------+
  |  2     |  Apple         |    1      |  Fruit  |
  +--------+----------------+-----------+---------+
  |  3     |  Orange        |    3      |  Fruit  |
  +--------+----------------+-----------+---------+

Answer 1

Right before you delete the Lemon row – check what its ORDER column value is.

After that perform

UPDATE tbl SET `ORDER` = `ORDER` - 1 WHERE `ORDER` > value_lemon_had