Question

I have a table with a column CName which contain person names.

If I want to annomynize this column so that the value are updated to become “Person 001”, “Person 002”, …, “Person n”.

Would this be possible with MySQL

Answer 1

You can do the following way:

update users,(SELECT @rownum:=0) r set users.name=concat('Person ',@rownum:=@rownum+1);