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Ryan McCormick

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Reset Autonumber Field in Access Without Recreating Table

November 23, 2015 by Ryan McCormick 9 Comments

This is going to be a very short and sweet (and saweeeet!!! that you don’t have to delete) post. Have you ever wanted to reset the counter on a autonumber field in Access, but don’t want to delete the table and start over again? SQL Magic to the rescue!

Before running the SQL statement below, you should understand that by re-numbering an index, you will lose access to data in any referenced table. DON’T DO THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING!

Reset MS Access Autonumber Count

Open up a new query in Access. Switch to SQL view and run:

ALTER TABLE [tablename] ALTER COLUMN [fieldname] COUNTER(1,1);

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  1. jim says

    November 22, 2016 at 11:59 am

    definitely saweeeet!!!

    Reply
  2. stefan says

    February 18, 2017 at 12:22 pm

    Microsoft Access 2016 – not working 😉

    Reply
  3. Terri says

    March 22, 2017 at 6:16 am

    MS Access 2016 – works after first deleting relationships, which is why you lose any relation to other tables.

    Reply
  4. chuks Edwin says

    January 23, 2018 at 2:51 pm

    Awesome, worked perfectly

    Reply
  5. Edx says

    February 7, 2018 at 3:53 am

    thank you! you just saved me another 10 hours of muddling about!

    Reply
  6. KLiK Infotech says

    June 15, 2018 at 2:02 pm

    cool it worked in stand alone table, don’t know about others

    Reply
  7. Lynn says

    July 27, 2018 at 11:26 am

    any way to get the autonumber to reset based on values w/in the table? e.g. a number of rows have the same date and i want the autonumber to start over when the date changes. the autonumber in this example is not a primary key.

    Reply
  8. Henning says

    July 18, 2019 at 3:48 pm

    Dear Ryan, works perfecty in Access 2013; thank you so much.

    Reply
  9. francesco says

    April 19, 2020 at 8:51 am

    ALTER TABLE [tablename] ALTER COLUMN [fieldname] COUNTER(1,1);
    IT DOESN’ T WORK

    Reply

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