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I want to empty my inventory table and cats_idx on one of my sites. The categories will remain the same. I assume the best way to empty the inventory table is:

TRUNCATE TABLE CubeCart_inventory;

If I use this command, will it empty the auto_increment counts as well as emptying the records from the table? IOW, after truncating this table, when I re-populate it, will the record id begin at 1?

Thanks fo any information.

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Hi Mark,

The auto-increment value is stored as one of the properties of the tables. For example, here is a dump of one of our test stores' inventory tables:

CREATE TABLE `306test_CubeCart_inventory` (

  `productId` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,

  `productCode` varchar(60) NOT NULL default '',

  `quantity` int(16) NOT NULL default '1',

  `description` text NOT NULL,

  `image` varchar(250) NOT NULL default '',

  `noImages` int(11) NOT NULL default '0',

  `price` decimal(30,2) NOT NULL default '0.00',

  `name` varchar(250) NOT NULL default '0',

  `cat_id` int(16) NOT NULL default '0',

  `popularity` bigint(64) NOT NULL default '0',

  `sale_price` decimal(30,2) NOT NULL default '0.00',

  `stock_level` int(11) default '0',

  `useStockLevel` int(11) default '1',

  `digital` int(11) NOT NULL default '0',

  `digitalDir` varchar(255) default NULL,

  `prodWeight` decimal(10,3) default NULL,

  `taxType` int(11) default NULL,

  `showFeatured` int(11) NOT NULL default '1',

  PRIMARY KEY  (`productId`)

) TYPE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=3;

What I would suggest, AFTER BACKING UP, is to export the structure of the table, edit the bottom line to read: 'AUTO_INCREMENT=1' and re-create the table, thus putting your auto increment back to 1.

Hope this helps.

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Thanks guys - what I've done so far: truncated both cats_idx and inventory - then uploaded 1775 products into inventory under their main categories, and updated cats_idx . . . Then I uploaded the first round of cross-reference info to cats_idx to add those 1775 products to other categories. In a few moments, I will do the next round of cross-references to add select numbers to other cats as well, then when all is done I'll run fixCatCount utility. So far, all seems to be successfull :blink:

The first cat, shot glasses, will be last to populate . . .

http://avftexas.com/bellissimo/index.php

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