in reply to DBI Update dynamically
Every user having a different number of fields seems strange and goes against the basic principles of relational database design.
A "kludgey" solution however could be as follows:
- SELECT the record you want to update and put this record's data into an array.
- Update this array with the new data.
- DELETE this record.
- INSERT a new record with the updated data from the array.
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