Erik Thiele wrote:
>hi,
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>i have a table consisting of 4 integers.
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>seq is for making the table ordered. (ORDER BY SEQ ASC)
>a,b,c maybe null
>
>
> seq | a | b | c
>-----+----+----+---
> 0 | 1 | 2 | 3
> 1 | 1 | 2 |
> 2 | 5 | 7 |
> 3 | -2 | -4 |
>
>
>i am needing a sql statement to do
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>c=a+b+"the c of the row with seq one less than myself"
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>this statement has to run over the whole table, in seq order.
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>
>how can this be acomplished???
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>
>cu&thanks
>erik
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Hi Erik,
this should do the trick:
(I have not yet considered the NULLS though...)
UPDATE table t set c = a + b + (Select c from table tt where tt.seq =
t.seq -1)
Cheers, Dani