At 13:45 -0500 1/25/02, webmaster@stripped wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>I have a question which just may very well be ridiculous. In one table,
>we have a column of type "timestamp". In normal cases, we want any changes
>to this row to update this timestamp (hence the nature of this datatype).
> However, there is one case where we do NOT want the timestamp to update
>if we make a change to some data in that row.
>
>Is there any way to temporarily avoid updating a timestamp type?
Sure. Set it to its current value.
UPDATE tbl_name SET ts_col = ts_col, other_col = new_value;
>
>Thanks for your time.
>
>-Ian
