RE: SELECT and UPDATE at the same time?

2002-12-19 Thread Dan Cumpian
: Dan Cumpian; 'Jeff Snoxell'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: SELECT and UPDATE at the same time? At 13:23 -0500 12/19/02, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Well, the only basis I have is personal experience from connecting to a local >MySQL database. The components I use for connectin

RE: SELECT and UPDATE at the same time?

2002-12-19 Thread Paul DuBois
At 13:23 -0500 12/19/02, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, the only basis I have is personal experience from connecting to a local MySQL database. The components I use for connecting to MySQL with Delphi does cache the records as the server returns them. However, not all the records are returned at

RE: SELECT and UPDATE at the same time?

2002-12-19 Thread ir000387
Well, the only basis I have is personal experience from connecting to a local MySQL database. The components I use for connecting to MySQL with Delphi does cache the records as the server returns them. However, not all the records are returned at once. As I said, it depends on how one connects to

RE: SELECT and UPDATE at the same time?

2002-12-18 Thread Paul DuBois
At 23:43 -0500 12/18/02, Dan Cumpian wrote: Jeff, Not if your outer loop is in a separate query. In that case, your query is essentially a cursor and is static once OPENed. As you move from record to record, what you are seeing is the records at the time the query was opened. Now, if you were to

RE: SELECT and UPDATE at the same time?

2002-12-18 Thread Dan Cumpian
Jeff, Not if your outer loop is in a separate query. In that case, your query is essentially a cursor and is static once OPENed. As you move from record to record, what you are seeing is the records at the time the query was opened. Now, if you were to update records that you haven't processed yet

RE: Re: SELECT and UPDATE at the same time?

2002-12-18 Thread Mike Hillyer
002 1:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re: SELECT and UPDATE at the same time? >> >>SELECT * FROM my_table WHERE Age > 50 AND UPDATE Status = "OLD" > >No. That's goofy anyway. Why wouldn't you just use a regular >UPDATE query? > >UPDATE m

Re: SELECT and UPDATE at the same time?

2002-12-18 Thread Gelu Gogancea
Hi, You can use REPLACE...SELECT Regards, Gelu _ G.NET SOFTWARE COMPANY Permanent e-mail address : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Jeff Snoxell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: SELECT and UPDATE at the same time?

2002-12-18 Thread Paul DuBois
At 21:40 +0200 12/18/02, Gelu Gogancea wrote: Hi, You can use REPLACE...SELECT Not in the case described below. You cannot replace into the same table from which you're selecting. Regards, Gelu _ G.NET SOFTWARE COMPANY Permanent e-mail ad

Re: Re: SELECT and UPDATE at the same time?

2002-12-18 Thread Jeff Snoxell
SELECT * FROM my_table WHERE Age > 50 AND UPDATE Status = "OLD" No. That's goofy anyway. Why wouldn't you just use a regular UPDATE query? UPDATE mytable Status = "OLD" WHERE Age > 50; Cos I want to do a fairly long-winded process on the records of those who are Age>50 and subsequently up

Re: SELECT and UPDATE at the same time?

2002-12-18 Thread Paul DuBois
At 17:56 + 12/18/02, Jeff Snoxell wrote: 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... b