Hello Everyone,

I'm a bit of a newbie with SQL but know enough to really break things. I would like to write some SQL which I can simply paste into phpMyAdmin or add to a PHP script, to update all the 'post_date' to today on my recruitment website. Thus making all my jobs look new again.

Each record has a unique ID although as I add jobs, more records will exist (obviously).

I've looked on a few forums but can't find a straight forward answer. What I'm basically looking for is a magical script to select all the records in the jobs table and update all the 'post_date' to today (2011-09-15 15:00:01).

thanks in advance.
Ren

You can check this,
update xxxx set post_date=date_format(now(),'%Y-%m-%d %H:%i:%s');

Regards,
niab

no, niab, the DATE_FORMAT function is completely unnecessary

and NOW() is mysql's proprietary non-standard equivalent for CURRENT TIMESTAMP

so the answer is already given, in post # 2