Re: One time only trigger/function on every row...

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On 2001 November 17 03:55 pm, wyatt@draggoo.com wrote:
> I didn't even think of this as I was adding books into my database, but I
> didn't rearrange the titles ('Shining, The' as opposed to 'The Shining')
> like I should have.
>
> I'm writing a function to use as a trigger to check and, if need be,
> rearrange the titles as they are added to the database, but is there an
> easy way to loop through all of the records currently in the database and
> run that function on them?

Perhaps
SELECT fix_title(*) FROM books WHERE title LIKE 'The %';

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