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 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php