(I know this isn't Perl related, but almost:-) ) Let's say i have a 'Customer' table, with autoincrementing 'Customer_ID'. Every new customer becomes 1, 2, 3 etc.

Suddenly, someone adds a numbers of customers with already specified customer numbers, overriding the auto_increment value.

This will, of course, spoil the original auto_increment flag and set it above the highest value (i.e. 1005 or something)

Let's say that I want to keep these values, but I also want to reset the flag to it's original state, so that the customer numbers will continue on 4,5,6 etc.
Is that possible?

In reply to Mysql autoincrement problem by DreamT

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