I noticed that a field set for auto_increment will lose its count if the
table is emptied.
In the application I'm creating, it is possible for some tables to be
emptied, but the auto incremented field needs to keep its count for the next
record entered into the table.
Is there a flag to tell MySQL to keep its count? If not, I suppose I could
get the maximum value of the field before emptying it and insert a new
record with the count. But I don't know if that would work, would MySQL
allow a forced value for the auto_increment field and count from that point