Posted by J.O. Aho on 10/10/86 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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