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Selecting Previously Updated Row in Current Row (within the same query)?

I have a situation where I need to select a previous row's UPDATED value to be used in calculating the current row's value... and then that is used to calculate the next row's value, so on, and so on...

 

I am using the LAG function successfully- however, no matter how I write my query it seems to only pull ALL the previous values FIRST, then update each row after that separately. I need it to:

  1. update the current value

  2. move to the next row, grab the previous row's value (from step 1)

  3. update the current row's value using the value from the previous row

 

I have tried the entire formula all within a single statement, select queries in sub-queries, joins, sub-joins, etc.

Anyone have any advice on how to perform this? Is this a stored procedure of sorts?
Thank you!

AlessioDidier
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 Let us first create a table −mysql> create table DemoTable(Value int); Query OK, 0 rows affected (1.79 sec)Insert some records in the table ...hotmail

kareem35
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Try adding these following tables first

 

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dannielll
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