Reseed MySQL Primary Key – AUTO_INCREMENT
Last Updated on: September 16, 2022
If you want to reseed your primary key (i.e. change the value of the next primary key generated), you can do it like this:
ALTER TABLE table_name AUTO_INCREMENT = 59446;This is useful for starting a new site, and you don’t want to leave hints that you have just launched.
For example, if you sign up a new user whose user_id is 3 and they can see it (e.g. in the URL), then they can easily figure out you are new.
This is increasingly important for eCommerce, where customer confidence is essential. Re-seed your invoice/order numbers if they are based on primary keys, and it will look like you have been in business for years.
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Yeh, but the most of the readers are using phpMyAdmin.. and they could just click “Operations” -tab .. and set the AUTO_INCREMENT -value.
Good advice, I am personally not a fan of phpMyAdmin. Much prefer to do as much as I can in pure sql.