Delete, Truncate or Drop to clean out a table in MySQL

Question

I am attempting to clean out a table but not get rid of the actual structure of the table. I have an id column that is auto-incrementing; I don\'t need to keep the

Answer 1

TRUNCATE will reset your auto-increment seed (on InnoDB tables, at least), although you could note its value before truncating and re-set accordingly afterwards using alter table:

ALTER TABLE t2 AUTO_INCREMENT = value