How to insert data to MySQL having auto incremented primary key?

Question

I\'ve created a table with a primary key and enabled AUTO_INCREMENT, how do I get MYSQL use AUTO_INCREMENT?

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Answer 1

The default keyword works for me:

mysql> insert into user_table (user_id, ip, partial_ip, source, user_edit_date, username) values 
(default, '39.48.49.126', null, 'user signup page', now(), 'newUser');
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Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

I'm running mysql --version 5.1.66:

mysql  Ver 14.14 Distrib **5.1.66**, for debian-linux-gnu (x86_64) using readline 6.1