mysql: how do i start auto increment from a specific point?

Question

CREATE TABLE `batchinfo` (
  `rowid` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `datapath` mediumtext,
  `analysistime` varchar(50) DEFAULT NULL,
  `reporttime` varchar(50)          


        

Answer 1

I don't know how to do it from the CREATE statement, but after that you can do this:

ALTER TABLE `batchinfo` AUTO_INCREMENT = 20000;