rite,
my primary key column ("id") is set to auto_increment as usual which is very
handy. But when I delete a row, the auto_increment just keeps incrementing
and there's this 'hole' left where I deleted the row!
Apart from this looking ugly, it poses another problem. In my PHP script
where I can add new rows, I query the table, checking how many rows in the
table altogether and set the new id as the next number, but this doesnt work
if theres 'holes' in the id field, as the new record tries to overwrite
another id.
So I've 2 questions
1) Can the next auto_increment value be 'set' by a SQL query????
2) Can I get a SQL query to INSERT INTO the first 'hole' it finds in the ID
column??
TIA
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