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Asked: 2026-05-12T13:29:23+00:00

I have a column called views in my table A. I want to increment

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I have a column called views in my table A. I want to increment the views column like so:

UPDATE A set views = views + 1 WHERE ID = blabla LIMIT 1;

This seems like the way to do it, at least to me.
Or so I thought.

Seems like when I (from PHP) do:

$views = get_viewcount($id);
$views++:
save_viewcount($id, $views);  //here we just update views with the $views variable

This always works. But carries the penalty of an extra roundtrip to the DB with the get_viewcount and then incrementing it in PHP and sending it back. It always works.

The SQL statement above “sometimes” works. I know – I too hate the word “sometimes” in programming – but put another way, I cannot say WHEN but at times it doesn’t increment it when I do it in SQL directly in one go.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You need to isolate the bug in your system. It is very unlikely to be a problem with MySQL.

    I would suggest running a ton of tests, and looking at database logs, etc. It is most likely the query is simply not getting executed due to some logic in your system, or due to the request dying/ending before it reaches the query.

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