Changing the current count of an Auto Increment value in MySQL?

Question

Currently every time I add an entry to my database, the auto increment value increments by 1, as it should. However, it is only at a count of 47. So, if I add a new entry, i

Answer 1

You can also set it with the table creation statement as follows;

CREATE TABLE mytable (
     id int NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
     ...
     PRIMARY KEY (ID)
)AUTO_INCREMENT=10000;

Hope it helps someone.