Bruce, Why not just determine this number when you do a query? Why do you need to have it be stored in the database?
It's easy to create a Perl (or probably PHP, but I really don't know PHP) script to fill in such a column, too, but you would need to manually maintain that. And right now I don't understand the problem well enough to convince me that such maintenance would be worthwhile ... Tom Haapanen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Bruce Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 02 October, 2001 07:04 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Counting Sequences Clarified Hello, Thank's for your interest Paul. I did a poor job of explaining my problem. Here is another go: For an athlete's first entry in the database I need a column value of 1. The second performance entry of the same athlete would have a value of 2. And so on. I need to apply this retrospectively to ten years of performance records. Ongoing updates are not an issue at present. Thanks Bruce --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
