'Set next order number' - is this stored anywhere?

A 'New Order ID' is entered in Admin - Store Manager. At a later date, and before any orders are taken, I want to check the value that was entered. How would I go about doing that?

The number entered is not stored in the database.

simon1066:

A 'New Order ID' is entered in Admin - Store Manager. At a later date, and before any orders are taken, I want to check the value that was entered. How would I go about doing that?

The number entered is not stored in the database.

It is stored as the next primary key for the table orders. Can be found using myphpadmin or an appropriate sql statement to retrieve the same.

Thank you, I never would have found that without help.

... and that number is incremented on every order, so the only way to find out "what number was entered" is to look at your actual orders (Admin->Customers->Orders) and see where the order-numbers suddenly started at a new value.

DrByte:

... and that number is incremented on every order, so the only way to find out "what number was entered" is to look at your actual orders (Admin->Customers->Orders) and see where the order-numbers suddenly started at a new value.
If I may add for clarity, the above would "post mortem" identify what value was entered as an order would have been placed after the "change" was made as the original question was more along the lines of how to identify the next order number without having any the historical information provided by having orders placed.

True. He did say "At a later date, and before any orders were taken". I was replying based on only the "at a later date" part ... somehow I missed the "before any orders were taken" part.
Thanks for clarifying. :)

DrByte:

True. He did say "At a later date, and before any orders were taken". I was replying based on only the "at a later date" part ... somehow I missed the "before any orders were taken" part.
Thanks for clarifying. :)

Thing was, and true to form, it was still correct and further beneficial to readers of the thread.