Set Auto Increment field start from 1000 in migration laravel 5.1

Most tables work with increments incrementing from the next biggest integer.

One can always insert an integer, that is higher than the current autoincrementing index. The autoincrementing index will then automatically follow from that new value +1 up.

So, if you have a freshly minted table your current index is 0, the next key will be 0 + 1 = 1.

What we want is a primary key that starts at 1000, so what we do is insert a record with id value of 999, so the next insert will become 1000.

In code:

 $startId = 1000;

 DB::table('users')->insert(['id'=> $startId - 1]);
 DB::table('users')->where('id',$startId - 1)->delete();

and now you have an empty table where the next insert id should be 1000.

Please note that if you have values to seed into the table with id values < startId you need to do that before you execute these statements. Otherwise the database will throw an constraint violation error.

This should work database agnostic, but if there's a database that does not follow this autoincrement rule i'd love to hear about it.

Migration to create table and set its auto-increment value as of Laravel 5.5

public function up()
{
    Schema::create('users', function (Blueprint $table) {
        $table->increments('id');
        $table->integer('qualification_id')->nullable();
        $table->integer('experience_id')->nullable();
    });

    // Here's the magic
    \DB::statement('ALTER TABLE table_name AUTO_INCREMENT = 1000;');
}

DB::statement() can be used to execute any single SQL statement you need.

In Laravel 8 you can use from() only for MySQL / PostgreSQL:

Set the starting value of an auto-incrementing field (MySQL / PostgreSQL)

$table->id()->from(...);

This startingValue() method also works but I didn't see this mentioned anywhere in the documentation.

$table->id()->startingValue(...);

Under the hood for mysql it uses:

public function compileAutoIncrementStartingValues(Blueprint $blueprint)
{
    return collect($blueprint->autoIncrementingStartingValues())->map(function ($value, $column) use ($blueprint) {
        return 'alter table '.$this->wrapTable($blueprint->getTable()).' auto_increment = '.$value;
    })->all();
}

It should be like this(not tested).

use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB;

class MyTableMigration extends Migration {

     /**
     * Run the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function up()
    {
        $statement = "ALTER TABLE MY_TABLE AUTO_INCREMENT = 111111;";
        DB::unprepared($statement);
    }

    /**
    * Reverse the migrations.
    *
    * @return void
    */
    public function down()
    {
    }
}

Update

//Your migrations here:
Schema::create('users', function (Blueprint $table) {
    $table->bigIncrements('id')->unsigned();
    $table->integer('qualification_id')->nullable();
    $table->integer('experience_id')->nullable();
});

//then set autoincrement to 1000
//after creating the table
DB::update("ALTER TABLE users AUTO_INCREMENT = 1000;");