"Mike Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there any way to make one field in a table calculate another field.
> I'm making a DB that calculates commissions. So in the money_made
> field would have the # of sales (sales field) times whatever the
commission
> would be.
If you're updating existing records use an UPDATE query.
UPDATE my_table
SET money_made = sales * 0.15;
Otherwise, if you're using a programming language like PHP or Perl to access
the DB, do something like this.
INSERT INTO my_table
VALUES (
$sales, $sales * $commission_rate );
--
Steve Werby
President, Befriend Internet Services LLC
http://www.befriend.com/
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