How to Auto Increment ID Numbers with Letters and Numbers

Question

How to Auto Increment ID Numbers with Letters and Numbers, example \"KP-0001\" it will increment to \"KP-0002\"

Thank you!

Answer 1

You can't auto increment varchar data type. Other way of doing this is to bifurcate varchar column into two different columns one will have integer part and other will have alphabet like in your case KP- once you auto increment all integer rows just concatenate these two columns