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Decreasing numbers in SQL

 
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Hello! What I'm trying to do at the moment is have a query which finds the appropriate record of a particulat product in the STOCK table and then decrement that quantity by 1. However, I'm not sure ntirely how to do this, as I know how to change the number by specifying one but I'm not sure how to minus the number. I tried this :

But this doesn't work because the second QuantityInStock is not recognised. Has anyone any ideas?
Thanks!
 
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If the STCOK table has a column called "QuantityInStock" then you can do this:
 
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But this doesn't work because the second QuantityInStock is not recognised
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Can you explain what you mean by this? Are you getting a SQLException, or is the variable undefined? It looks like it should work fine to me, though you appear to probably be using a SQL varchar datatype for QuantityInStock, despite treating it as numeric.

 
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Thanks Blake! That worked. Thanks!
 
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