title: get next auto increment value from an empty table
body: <p>I've got a table named 'messages'</p>
  
  <p>I flooded it with approx 150 tables I'm not sure about the count. The 'id' field is 'primary' and 'auto_increment'.</p>
  
  <p>by mistake i deleted all the records in the table (NOTE: I did not truncate the table so the count would not be reset) and I lost the count of the number of records. </p>
  
  <p>Is there a possibility that I can get the next count of 'id' field? This is causing problems for me while trying to insert a new message using ajax message. </p>