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Can this be done with one or two UPDATEs?
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19/02/2012 12:23:44
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Visual FoxPro
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Other
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Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01535797
Message ID:
01535806
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>>Hi,
>>
>>Say I have a table that has column MY_INT_FLD I(4). There could be some records in this table that have the same value in this field. And some records that have 0 in this field. I want to create one or two (or maybe even three) UPDATE command(s) that will set each record of this table to a unique value and it has to be greater than 0. Is it possible? TIA.
>
>
>If your table has a primary key, with one update is possible
>
>
>	create cursor MyTable ;
>	(	Pk		I, ;
>		MY_INT_FLD	I ;
>	)
>	
>	for i = 1 to 100
>		insert into MyTable values( 10000+ i, 22)
>	endfor
>	
>	update MyTable ;
>		set	MY_INT_FLD = tmp ;
>		from ( ;
>				select	Pk, ;
>						recno() as tmp ;
>					from MyTable ;
>			) X ;
>		where ( MyTable.Pk== X.Pk)
>	
>
The table does not currently have a primary key. What I am trying to do (why I posted the question) is to make this field in question to be primary key. But in order to do it I need to make sure that every record has a unique value. Otherwise, on update I will get the error. Thank you.
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