Auto-increment is not resetting in MySQL

Question

I am trying to set up a script to generate a particular set of test data into my database, at the beginning of which I want to clear the tables concerned without dropping co

Answer 1

Can you not drop the relevant, auto increment column and recreate it? Example follows:

;;assuming your column is called id and your table is tbl
ALTER TABLE tbl DROP COLUMN id;
ALTER TABLE tbl ADD COLUMN id BIGINT UNSIGNED DEFAULT 1 PRIMARY KEY FIRST;

This should work, but I don't use MySQL, just going off the docs. If you need further help, leave a comment and I'll do my best to help out.