Re: [SQL] need magic to shuffle some numbers

2011-08-24 Thread Tim Landscheidt
(anonymous) wrote: > there is a table that has among others a integer primary key > "id" and another integer column "prio" as well as an integer > "group_id". > I'd like to invert the values of the prio-column for one of the groups. > The prio numbers start with 3 and there are 1159 different > p

Re: [SQL] need magic to shuffle some numbers

2011-08-23 Thread Samuel Gendler
I don't have time to experiment with actual queries, but you can use the rank() window function to rank rows with prio sorted ascending, and do the same thing to rank rows with prio sorted descending, and update rows with the value from the second where the rank matches the rank from the first. I'

[SQL] need magic to shuffle some numbers

2011-08-23 Thread Andreas
Hi, there is a table that has among others a integer primary key "id" and another integer column "prio" as well as an integer "group_id". I'd like to invert the values of the prio-column for one of the groups. The prio numbers start with 3 and there are 1159 different prios in this group. At