[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dani Matielo) writes:
> my problem is the following: I just imported a csv file to a MySQL database
> that contains name and email fields. It has about 9k lines on it and I need
> a new field that orinally didn't exist called "code" thats suposed to be
> 
> MD5(name.email)
> 
> I know how to do this for new data, but I don't know how to update all the
> old ones I already have there.

If I understand you correctly, this is probably something like what
you want to do:

ALTER TABLE foo ADD bar VARCHAR(20);

(don't know how long the field needs to be).

UPDATE foo SET bar = MD5(baz);


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