How do I drop a primary key in MySQL?

Question

I have a primary key name idnumber. how can I remove its primary key in mysql

Answer 1

This should work for you, but are you sure you want to drop the primary key?

ALTER TABLE tablename DROP PRIMARY KEY;

Answer 2

Help on alter table syntax here

Why would you want to drop the the primary key? If you created it by mistake then you can change it by

alter table T drop primary key, add primary key (C);

Where T is the table name and C is the column containing the correct primary key

Answer 3

You'd need to drop and create a new primary key if you currently have it on AUTOINCREMENT, something like this:

ALTER TABLE table DROP PRIMARY KEY, ADD PRIMARY KEY(your_column);