Re: conditional updating

2012-02-11 Thread william drescher
On 2/9/2012 8:58 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 09.02.2012 14:55, schrieb william drescher: On 2/9/2012 8:22 AM, Johnny Withers wrote: Update table set mydate=now() where mydate='-00-00'; should do it. can't do that because the record is selected by other criteria. so explain the criter

Re: conditional updating

2012-02-09 Thread Johnny Withers
It implied to me there were two fields to update based on the date being a given value. Read it how you like. Sent from my iPad On Feb 9, 2012, at 9:34 AM, Michael Dykman wrote: > He did mention that there was another field he was updating, which > implies that the state of the date field was n

Re: conditional updating

2012-02-09 Thread Michael Dykman
He did mention that there was another field he was updating, which implies that the state of the date field was not the only condition. - michael On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 9:22 AM, Johnny Withers wrote: > So, add your "other criteria" to the where clause, you failed to say > there were other condi

Re: conditional updating

2012-02-09 Thread Johnny Withers
So, add your "other criteria" to the where clause, you failed to say there were other conditions in your first email. Sent from my iPad On Feb 9, 2012, at 7:56 AM, william drescher wrote: > On 2/9/2012 8:22 AM, Johnny Withers wrote: >> Update table set mydate=now() where mydate='-00-00'; sh

Re: conditional updating

2012-02-09 Thread william drescher
On 2/9/2012 8:18 AM, Michael Dykman wrote: untested: update set mydate = IF(mydate = '-00-00', now(), mydate) - michael dykman Thank you very much ! bill On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 8:14 AM, william drescher wrote: I want to update a date field in a record. if the date in the fie

Re: conditional updating

2012-02-09 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 09.02.2012 14:55, schrieb william drescher: > On 2/9/2012 8:22 AM, Johnny Withers wrote: >> Update table set mydate=now() where mydate='-00-00'; should do it. > can't do that because the record is selected by other criteria. so explain the criteria, show us the query usually you do exat

Re: conditional updating

2012-02-09 Thread william drescher
On 2/9/2012 8:22 AM, Johnny Withers wrote: Update table set mydate=now() where mydate='-00-00'; should do it. can't do that because the record is selected by other criteria. Thanks bill -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http

Re: conditional updating

2012-02-09 Thread Johnny Withers
Update table set mydate=now() where mydate='-00-00'; should do it. Sent from my iPad On Feb 9, 2012, at 7:15 AM, william drescher wrote: > I want to update a date field in a record. if the date in the field is > -00-00 I want to change it to the current date. I would appreciate > sug

Re: conditional updating

2012-02-09 Thread Michael Dykman
untested: update set mydate = IF(mydate =  '-00-00', now(), mydate) - michael dykman On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 8:14 AM, william drescher wrote: > I want to update a date field in a record. if the date in the field is > -00-00 I want to change it to the current date.  I would apprecia

conditional updating

2012-02-09 Thread william drescher
I want to update a date field in a record. if the date in the field is -00-00 I want to change it to the current date. I would appreciate suggestions or links on how to do this. Yup, tried reading the manual, but need a bit of help. I will be updating another field at the same time. bill