How to manually set seed value as 1000 in MySQL

Question

I am using MySQL 5. I need to set the seed value as 1000 for my auto increment field. How can I set it?

Answer 1

To set when creating your table:

CREATE TABLE xxx(...) AUTO_INCREMENT = 1000;

To set after creating the table:

ALTER TABLE xxx AUTO_INCREMENT = 1000; 

Answer 2

If the table already exists, you can do this:

ALTER TABLE mytable AUTO_INCREMENT = 1000;

But make sure the highest value in the auto_increment column is less than 1000.

If you are creating a new table, you can do this:

CREATE TABLE mytable (id INT UNSIGNED PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT)
AUTO_INCREMENT = 1000;