Re: Counting Sequences Clarified

2001-10-02 Thread Paul DuBois
At 9:04 PM +1000 10/2/01, Bruce Collins wrote: >Hello, >Thank's for your interest Paul. I did a poor job >of explaining my problem. Here is another go: >For an athlete's first entry in the database I need a column >value of 1. The second performance entry of the same athlete >would have a value of

RE: Counting Sequences Clarified

2001-10-02 Thread Haapanen, Tom
Bruce, Why not just determine this number when you do a query? Why do you need to have it be stored in the database? It's easy to create a Perl (or probably PHP, but I really don't know PHP) script to fill in such a column, too, but you would need to manually maintain that. And right now I don