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Re: Increment Function
Posted by: Felix Geerinckx
Date: April 28, 2005 01:42AM

Ian Biner wrote:

> Is there an SQL function that simply allows me to increment a numeric field (not auto-increment...
> this is a counter, not a record number)?

What about

UPDATE foo SET counter = counter+1 WHERE id = <some_id>;

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felix

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