hi all

I have created a table with: id | message | date

at first, all seemed to work fine BUT the id (AUTO_INCREMENT) doesn't reset itself back to 1 when i delete all the rows, it continues counting from the last row example

id message
1 xxxxx
2 xxxxx
3 xxxxx

now if i delete where id=3, and then insert a new row, it will look like this:

id message
1 xxxxx
2 xxxxx
4 xxxxx

That is the correct, expected behaviour.

Can you explain to us why you'd want it any other way?

ah nvm then, i can do this a different way its to do with a program im writing in assembly to work with the db.

Before you go ahead with your other method can you tell us why you need a perfectly sequential identifier for your records? I don't like to say it but chances are you have a flaw in your design.

I've not worked with SQL for a very long time so i forgot that AUTO_INCREMENT works in the way it does. I was trying to delete a row based on the selected index of a listbox item but of course that would fail sinse the list box index could be 3 and the ID in the sql table could be 4. So instead i'm using listview32 API with a column for the ID, this way i can delete a row using the correct id from the sub column. And now everything is working fine, ready for my client

If you want to get sequence after deleting the row u had to insert value directly to the auto increment column