Reset autonumber seed

Question

I have a VB6/Access application that occasionally encounters a problem with wrong autonumber field seed.

Lets say there is a table MYTABLE with an autonumber field

Answer 1

You may also need to make sure that your database is set up to use ANSI 92 so that COUNTER is recognized as a legitimate data type.

In Access 2007 go to Access Options, Object Designers, SQL Server compatability syntax (ANSI 92) to set this.