At 21:40 +0200 12/18/02, Gelu Gogancea wrote:
>Hi,
>You can use REPLACE...SELECT
Not in the case described below. You cannot replace into the same
table from which you're selecting.
>
>Regards,
>
>Gelu
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jeff Snoxell" <Jeff@stripped>
>To: <mysql@stripped>
>Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 7:56 PM
>Subject: SELECT and UPDATE at the same time?
>
>
>> Hello again,
>>
>> I'm selecting a group of records from my database. I then loop through the
>> selected records and do some work based on what I find. But what I also
>> want to do as I interrogate each record is update some of its fields with
>> new values... but won't that screw up the outer loop? I mean if I try to
>> execute a query whilst looping around the result set of a former query
>will
>> I not screw up my result set that I'm looping through?
>>
>> Also, is it possible to update specific fields of certain records within a
>> SELECT query? ie can I do something like this:
>>
>> SELECT * FROM my_table WHERE Age > 50 AND UPDATE Status = "OLD"
>>
>> Ta,
>>
>>
> > Jeff
