Re: newbie: increment an existing record

2004-03-19 Thread Brad Eacker
Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> It's likely he would prefer to update a particular record via >> >> update t1 set f = f + 1 where id = 1234; >> >> Which will update only the record matching the id of 1234. > >That is indeed what I ended up doing, and it worked. Thanks. Jim, It's good t

Re: newbie: increment an existing record

2004-03-19 Thread miasmo
Brad That is indeed what I ended up doing, and it worked. Thanks. Jim On Friday, March 19, 2004, at 02:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a mysql command that will increment the value of a field in an existing row? I would think this would be pretty basic, but I can't seem to find anyth

Re: newbie: increment an existing record

2004-03-19 Thread beacker
>> Is there a mysql command that will increment the value of a field in an >> existing row? I would think this would be pretty basic, but I can't seem >> to find anything in the online documentation. > >update t1 set f = f + 1 Unfortunately that will update all the records in the database.

Re: newbie: increment an existing record

2004-03-19 Thread Sasha Pachev
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a mysql command that will increment the value of a field in an existing row? I would think this would be pretty basic, but I can't seem to find anything in the online documentation. update t1 set f = f + 1 -- Sasha Pachev Create online surveys at http://www.su