For implicit modification you can use a trigger on the table. If you
wan't store this data, you can use view.
andres javier garcia garcia ?????:
>Hi;
>
>I've got a table with two fields and about 3000 rows, the second one is a
>character field, what can have about twenty different values; of course these
>values are repeated a lot of times in the table. I need to create a new
>column of type integer, whose value depens on the character fields. The
>values of the new column are not important, the important thing is who can I
>create this column and assign a different integer to a different char value
>in the other column.
>Thanks
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>Javier
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