Do you mean that you want to add to what's already there?.....eg. A field
called name contains "Becky" and you want to update it to be
"BeckyJones"?...if so what you need is:
UPDATE <table> SET <fieldname> = <fieldname> + '<NewValue>'
This will only work with a chrachter field
Andy
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jones, Becky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 25 April 2001 18:06
To: CF-Talk
Subject: sql update
i want to update a field for a record in my database, but i dont want to
overwrite what is already there. is there a way i could do this?
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