MySQL ALTER TABLE AUTO_INCREMENT and ORDER BY

Question

I would like alter my table so that the table is sorted alphabetically as well as then reset my AUTO_INCREMENT Field (prof_id).

Attached is the database structure. The Foreign Key in 'my_contacts' is still NULL.

I have run an "ALTER TABLE profession ORDER BY profession"

Answer 1

I would like alter my table so that the table is sorted alphabetically

That's strange and doesn't happen that way. You should rather get the sorted/ordered data while doing a SELECT statement using an ORDER BY clause like below

select * from profession order by profession;

Again I would suggest, change you column name different than the table name. In your case, table name and column name both the profession .

then reset my AUTO_INCREMENT Field (prof_id).

Not sure why you would want to reset the PK field; anyways you can do the same using an ALTER statement like

ALTER TABLE profession AUTO_INCREMENT = 1;