Re: Swappng Filds

> Hello-
> I have a table with values in two columns that I
> want to swap; that is,
> I want the value in column A to now be in column B
> and the value in
> column B to be in column A.  I tried...
>
> UPDATE my_table SET A=B, B=A WHERE mycontition =
> True
>
> But that seemed to place the value of column B into
> A, then the new
> value of A into B, so both A and B contained value
> B.  Is there a common
> technique to accomplish this?
>
> Thanks,
> --greg

this might be way off base, but why not leave the data
and swap the column names?

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