Question

I have a table two columns, id and description. id is primary key and auto increment, description is a varchar.

Is there any way to make an update statement that populates the descrption column with something like "this row has id: @id". Where @id is the current id. Hope you get the idea, otherwise ill elaborate.

Answer 1

Try this:

UPDATE tableName
SET    description = CONCAT('this row has id: @', id);