Re[3]: Update field conditionally

2004-03-09 Thread Terry Riley
> Hello Terry, > > Tuesday, March 9, 2004, 6:25:00 PM, you wrote: > > TR> Good point, Richard. I was perhaps in a little bit too much of a > > hurry > TR> putting that together, and didn't even consider that! > > No worries. One other thought that occurred to me that might help with > the o

Re[2]: Update field conditionally

2004-03-09 Thread Richard Davey
Hello Terry, Tuesday, March 9, 2004, 6:25:00 PM, you wrote: TR> Good point, Richard. I was perhaps in a little bit too much of a hurry TR> putting that together, and didn't even consider that! No worries. One other thought that occurred to me that might help with the original problem is as follo

Re: Update field conditionally

2004-03-09 Thread Terry Riley
See below: --Original Message- > Hello Terry, > > Tuesday, March 9, 2004, 5:11:00 PM, you wrote: > > I know you have some solutions to the original problem already, but I > just wanted to make one small observation: > > TR> The fields are to be CounterCode (Varchar 10), Count

Re: Update field conditionally

2004-03-09 Thread Terry Riley
an be fairly certain that the record exists (or can code around it if it doesn't), so I'll probably stick with what I've got. Thanks anyway! Terry > > ----- Original Message - > From: "Terry Riley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Update field conditionally

2004-03-09 Thread Richard Davey
Hello Terry, Tuesday, March 9, 2004, 5:11:00 PM, you wrote: I know you have some solutions to the original problem already, but I just wanted to make one small observation: TR> The fields are to be CounterCode (Varchar 10), CounterValue (Int 10) and TR> CounterStartDateTime (DateTime). Using a

Re: Update field conditionally

2004-03-09 Thread Terry Riley
Thanks, Jeremy What I actually needed was: UPDATE Table SET CounterValue = CounterValue+1, CounterStartDateTime = IF(CounterStartDateTime IS NULL, Now(), CounterStartDateTime) This prevents it going back to NULL if the value is already not NULL. Thanks again. Terry --Original Messa

Re: Update field conditionally

2004-03-09 Thread Rhino
cuted. ... etc. Just my two cents worth Rhino - Original Message - From: "Terry Riley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 12:11 PM Subject: Update field conditionally > Using v4.0.15 on WinNT under Apache. > > For

Update field conditionally

2004-03-09 Thread Jeremy March
> UPDATE Table SET CounterValue = CounterValue+1, CounterStartDateTime = > (IF CounterStartDateTime IS NULL, Now()) > > without success. It looks like you just have the syntax wrong. Try: UPDATE Table SET CounterValue = CounterValue+1, CounterStartDateTime = IF(CounterStartDateTime IS NULL, N

Update field conditionally

2004-03-09 Thread Terry Riley
Using v4.0.15 on WinNT under Apache. For my sins, the client has insisted on creating a page counter! The fields are to be CounterCode (Varchar 10), CounterValue (Int 10) and CounterStartDateTime (DateTime). Setting up the table is no problem. However, client wants to have the CounterStartDat