[thelist] Increment every value in table (MySQL)

[Chris Price]

Hi Barry

I figured I'd have to do something like this.

If you've seen Jason Handby's reply this an atypical table so I'll be 
going for a semi automatic solution using the mySQL administrator for now.

Thanks for your help.

Barry Woolgar wrote:
>> I am looking for a query something like UPDATE table_name 
>> SET * = * x 1.35 so I don't need to know field names.
>>     
>
> Ah I see what you mean, if you don't mind doing it in a couple of queries
> and a bit of programming you could run a 'SHOW COLUMNS FROM table', loop
> through the results to get the field names, and build your update query on
> the fly.
>
> There is probably a more elegant way to go about this, which I'd be
> interested in seeing if anyone knows it

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