Hi,
You can use REPLACE...SELECT
Regards,
Gelu
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From: "Jeff Snoxell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 7:56 PM
Subject: SELECT and UPDATE at the same time?
> Hello again,
>
> I'm selecting a group of records from my database. I then loop through the
> selected records and do some work based on what I find. But what I also
> want to do as I interrogate each record is update some of its fields with
> new values... but won't that screw up the outer loop? I mean if I try to
> execute a query whilst looping around the result set of a former query
will
> I not screw up my result set that I'm looping through?
>
> Also, is it possible to update specific fields of certain records within a
> SELECT query? ie can I do something like this:
>
> SELECT * FROM my_table WHERE Age > 50 AND UPDATE Status = "OLD"
>
> Ta,
>
>
> Jeff
>
>
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