Set AUTO_INCREMENT value programmatically

Question

So this works...

ALTER TABLE variation AUTO_INCREMENT = 10;

But I want to do this;

ALTER TABLE variation AUTO_INCREMENT = (         


        

Answer 1

I don't know if this is a good idea, but could you do it with 2 queries in a server side language, for example, PHP?

$incrementStep = Db::query('SELECT MAX(id)+1 FROM old_db.varaition');

Db::query('ALTER TABLE variation AUTO_INCREMENT = ' . (int) $incrementStep);

Assuming that Db::query is a magic query method that returns exactly what you want, every time :)