Great, thanks!
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 4:38 PM, Tyler Hobbs <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 6:32 PM, Clint Kelly <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> >> What is the best known method for resetting a counter in CQL? Is it best >> to read the counter and then increment it by a negative amount? > > > Do this. > > >> Or to delete the row and then increment it by zero? >> > > Don't do this. When you delete a counter, you are basically saying "I > will never use this counter again". If you try to use it again, the > behavior is undefined. It's one of the documented limitations of counters. > > > -- > Tyler Hobbs > DataStax <http://datastax.com/> >
