Question

Thank you in advance for your help on this one.

Here’s my issue:

Table A had spam accounts that I deleted. The rows were like:
1, 2556, 2559, 2565, 2595, etc.

Am trying to import Table A into the empty Table B in the same database.
tables have different fields.

Table B declines the import because the insert is set to auto increment.
Mysql table B does not seem to want to skip rows.

I went to Table A and updated the rows to:

1, 2, 3,4,5…, 18

Now when I try to create a user in Table A using PyphAdmin with user_id value of NULL,
the id i get is 2596. Mysql still remembers the old incrementing sequence.
How can I get Mysql table to auto-increment based on the previous row so the new
id will be 19 ?

The mysql import file is encrypted in phpshield so I dont see what’s
going on and has no way to edit it. But I assume this is what is happening after I ruled out all other possibilities.

Answer 1

1. The field must be primary key – PRIMARY KEY (id)
2. The field must be AUTO_INCREMENT
3. Reset table’s autoincrement value.

For example –

CREATE TABLE table1(
  id INT(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  PRIMARY KEY (id)
);

Set new autoincrement value –

ALTER TABLE table1 AUTO_INCREMENT = 19;