How to decrease a value in sql

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Hello all.

I need help editing the values in a database table. Its a product subscription table, and i want to write an sql query that will decrease the subscription period by 1 e.g A 12 months subscription will have a value of 12, 6 months will have a value of 6, so I will need help to write a query to reduces all subscription values by 1

I have something like this:

UPDATE TABLE subscription

ADD 1 to sub_period

Kindly reply soon

Thank you

Posted 30-Jun-14 3:58am

namo77

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Abhinav S · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-30T04:00:00

Solution 1

Try Update mytable set subscription = subscription - 1

Posted 30-Jun-14 4:00am

Abhinav S

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namo77 30-Jun-14 11:56am

Thank you so much!!!