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Subject: Re: new calculated column
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HI.


simple (tedious) solution would be do fire 20 sqls.


update tabel set f1=<some int 1> where f2='some varchar1';
update tabel set f1=<some int 2> where f2='some varchar2';
update tabel set f1=<some int 3> where f2='some varchar3';

incase there is some the integer is a function of varchar
u may translate to the corresponding SQL.


regds
mallah.





> Hi;
>
> I've got a table with two fields and about 3000 rows, the second one is a character field, what
> can have about twenty different values; of course these values are repeated a lot of times in
> the table. I need to create a new column of type integer, whose value depens on the character
> fields. The values of the new column are not important, the important thing is who can I create
> this column and assign a different integer to a different char value in the other column.
> Thanks
> --------------
> Javier
>
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