Re: [sqlite] Help with complex UPDATE question

2010-07-23 Thread peterwinson1
, 0 //(1 - 1) 0, 1 //(2 - 1) 1, 2 //(3 - 1) 1, 3 //(4 - 1) 2, 5 2, 6 3, 7 3, 8 Is this possible in SQL? peterwinson1 wrote: Hello, I have a some what complex question about UPDATE. I have the following table table1 (KEY, COL1) 0, 1 1, 2 2, 3 3, 4 What I would like to do

Re: [sqlite] Help with complex UPDATE question

2010-07-23 Thread peterwinson1
, peterwinson1 wrote: Thanks Eric and Alan for your help. I tried to apply your code to my problem and it works to a limited extent because the problem is more complicated than the example I gave in the post. I tries to simplify my exact problem but that didn't work out. So here is the problem

Re: [sqlite] Help with complex UPDATE question

2010-07-23 Thread peterwinson1
to the rows so you can refer to them unambiguously. table1 (KEY, COL1, ord) 0, 1,1 0, 2,2 1, 3,1 1, 4,2 2, 5,1 2, 6,2 3, 7,1 3, 8,2 On 7/23/2010 12:16 PM, peterwinson1 wrote: Jim you maybe correct that I don't have enough data to unambiguously identify the rows. But just

[sqlite] Help with complex UPDATE question

2010-07-22 Thread peterwinson1
Hello, I have a some what complex question about UPDATE. I have the following table table1 (KEY, COL1) 0, 1 1, 2 2, 3 3, 4 What I would like to do is to UPDATE COL1 by subtracting the COL1 value where KEY = 0 from the COL1 value of the current row so that the result would be. 0, 0 1, 1 2, 2