Both should work

On Tuesday, 14 February 2017 18:27:57 UTC+2, wysiwyg wrote:

> Hello !
>
> I just discovered this nice SQL command suggested in this discussion:
>
> *UPDATE archive SET barometer=barometer+xxx WHERE dateTime < YYY;*
>
> I'm interested in this to correct an other parameter with multiplication 
> instead of addition. 
> I just would like to confim the syntax to make sure I will not mess up my 
> database:
> so If I want to divide by 2 a value:
>
> *UPDATE archive SET param_to_be_modified=**param_to_be_modified*0.5** WHERE 
> dateTime < YYY;*
>
> *or maybe:*
>
> *UPDATE archive SET param_to_be_modified=**param_to_be_modified/2** WHERE 
> dateTime < YYY;*
>
> Is one of those working (or both).
>
> Best regards,
>
>
> Le jeudi 12 janvier 2017 00:36:58 UTC+1, Tom Keffer a écrit :
>>
>> Perhaps that's because it was originally translated from a Pascal program 
>> <http://www.softwx.com/weather/uwxutils.html>. :-)
>>
>> -tk
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 2:07 PM, Gone Bush <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for the replies, much appreciated. And apologies for the 
>>> confusion.
>>>
>>> Tom Keffer's answer with the reference to the uwxutils.py module was the 
>>> information is was after. But, being lazy by nature, I was hoping for a 
>>> "here's the formula" type of answer. ;)
>>>
>>> I'm going through the code now and it doesn't seem that bad - even for a 
>>> non-Python person.
>>>
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