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What happens when the column is set to AUTO INCREMENT and you reach the maximum value for that table?

What happens when the column is set to AUTO INCREMENT and you reach the maximum value for that table??????
Asked by Balu Prasad | Mar 18, 2010 |  Reply now
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Hi Balu,
It stops incrementing. It does not overflow to 0 to prevent data losses, but further inserts are going to produce an error, since the key has been used already.
Mar 18, 2010