RE: verification upon update, help, please

2002-07-03 Thread Nilesh Shah
What happens if you put third TIMESTAMP column.?. Will that be updated?. Just curios. Nilesh -Original Message- From: Paul DuBois [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 12:42 PM To: Paul Tomsic; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: verification upon update, help, please

Re: verification upon update, help, please

2002-07-03 Thread Paul DuBois
At 12:07 -0400 7/3/02, Paul Tomsic wrote: >Does MySQL prevent updates from occurring when the values involved >are the same as the database's current state. I don't know if "prevent" is the word exactly. It doesn't bother to update the row unless you actually change a value. The phenonenon you

verification upon update, help, please

2002-07-03 Thread Paul Tomsic
Does MySQL prevent updates from occurring when the values involved are the same as the database's current state. For instance, if I've got a table create table updater( id int not null primary key auto_increment, is_active int not null default 1 }; insert into updater(is_active) values (1); in