Question

I have a table of around 30 rows. I need to insert a new row specifically into the 3rd row. I tried manually giving it an ‘id’ value, hoping the auto-increment would take care of the rest but it’s giving me a ‘duplicate entry’ error for the primary key.

Is there any way around this? It’s a one-time fix so I dont need a ‘flexible’ solution or anything.

Thank you!

Answer 1

execute this update before you insert the row with id=3:

update your_table set id=id+1 where id >= 3;