On Fri, 2012-03-30 at 06:45 -0700, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> A simple solution that demonstrates one way to do the above:
>
>
> cur.execute("select recno from some_table")
>
> for row in cur:
> recno = cur[0]
> cur.execute("update books set inyear=%s", (makeyear(recno),))
>
Thanks for your suggestion, Adrian.
Actually, that was something I tried first.
But my some_table is about 165000 records, and it took nearly three
hours (on my not so young system) to run the individual updates.
So I looked for a one-pass solution.
egbert
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