There are many answers when I googled for reset auto increment in MySQL table. But very few specifically talk about doing it purely using MySQL query and simply set the auto-increment to just +1 of the largest id value.

This article addresses that specifically.

Since I couldn't find exactly what I want here, I have cobbled the answer from various answers and sharing it here.

Few things to note:

1. the table in question is InnoDB
2. the table uses the field id with type as int as primary key
3. the only way to do this purely in MySQL is to use stored procedure
4. my images below are using SequelPro as the GUI. You should be able to adapt it based on your preferred MySQL editor
5. I have tested this on MySQL Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.5.61, for debian-linux-gnu

Step 1: Create Stored Procedure

create a stored procedure like this:

DELIMITER //
CREATE PROCEDURE reset_autoincrement(IN tablename varchar(200))
BEGIN

      SET @get_next_inc = CONCAT('SELECT @next_inc := max(id) + 1 FROM ',tablename,';');
      PREPARE stmt FROM @get_next_inc;
      EXECUTE stmt;
      SELECT @next_inc AS result;
      DEALLOCATE PREPARE stmt;

      set @alter_statement = concat('ALTER TABLE ', tablename, ' AUTO_INCREMENT = ', @next_inc, ';');
      PREPARE stmt FROM @alter_statement;
      EXECUTE stmt;
      DEALLOCATE PREPARE stmt;
END //
DELIMITER ;

Then run it.

Step 2: Call the stored procedure

This time you can simply use normal MySQL queries.

call reset_autoincrement('products');