How to make MySQL table primary key auto increment with some prefix

Question

I have table like this

table
id Varchar(45) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
name CHAR(30) NOT NULL,

I want to increment my id field like 'LHPL001','LHPL002','LHPL003'... etc. What should I have to do for that? Please let me know any possible way.

Answer 1

If you really need this you can achieve your goal with help of separate table for sequencing (if you don't mind) and a trigger.

Tables

CREATE TABLE table1_seq
(
  id INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY
);
CREATE TABLE table1
(
  id VARCHAR(7) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY DEFAULT '0', name VARCHAR(30)
);

Now the trigger

DELIMITER $$
CREATE TRIGGER tg_table1_insert
BEFORE INSERT ON table1
FOR EACH ROW
BEGIN
  INSERT INTO table1_seq VALUES (NULL);
  SET NEW.id = CONCAT('LHPL', LPAD(LAST_INSERT_ID(), 3, '0'));
END$$
DELIMITER ;

Then you just insert rows to table1

INSERT INTO Table1 (name) 
VALUES ('Jhon'), ('Mark');

And you'll have

|      ID | NAME |
------------------
| LHPL001 | Jhon |
| LHPL002 | Mark |

Here is SQLFiddle demo