A Date Column That Auto-updates When Any Column In The Row Is Updated
Let's say I have a table with several columns.
I would like to add a column called "date last updated".
How this would work is that any time one of the other columns in that row was updated, the 'date last updated' column would update.
I *know* how to do this with PHP, but here is the special part...
Is there a way to have this automatically just within MySQL, so that EVEN IF if update a column manually through the command line or PHPmyAdmin, the 'date last updated' field updates.
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