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 Posted by J.O. Aho on 06/12/86 11:39 
mr gumpy wrote: 
> I want to update a number of timestamps that look like this 1027094500 
> to look like this 20051027094500 
>  This is the sort of thing I have been trying with no success: 
>  
> UPDATE `newCalls` WHERE timeStamp LIKE '10%' SET timeStamp LIKE '200310%' 
>  
> I would be grateful if anyone could tell me what I should be doing. 
 
You need to use CONCAT and it's for strings, not for integers. 
 
 
UPDATE newCalls SET timeStamp=CONCAT('2003',timeStamp) WHERE timeStamp LIKE '10%'; 
 
If your timestamp is in unix time, adding a year infront is to ruin the whole  
thing with timestamps. 
 
 
 
  //Aho
 
  
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