8 messages in com.mysql.lists.perlRe: mysql timestamp question
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Todd Finney09 Dec 1999 07:10 
Autarch09 Dec 1999 08:34 
Autarch09 Dec 1999 08:36 
Jochen Wiedmann09 Dec 1999 12:00 
Jochen Wiedmann09 Dec 1999 12:05 
Jochen Wiedmann09 Dec 1999 12:29 
Jochen Wiedmann09 Dec 1999 12:29 
Michael Widenius14 Jan 2000 07:23 
Subject:Re: mysql timestamp question
From:Jochen Wiedmann (jo@ispsoft.de)
Date:12/09/1999 12:00:14 PM
List:com.mysql.lists.perl

Todd Finney wrote:

My question is, how do you specify explicitly the timestamp column in an update statement without actually changing the value? Am I reading this wrong?

The trick is reading the old value before doing the update and then using the old value explicitly.