updating columns with a sequence number mysql

Question

I have a table with the columns: (this is only an example I have 50K records)

Name,   Number

Joe     Null
Michael Null
Moses   Null

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Answer 1

You could try setting the Number to AUTO_INCREMENT so the numbers will be generated:

ALTER TABLE your_table MODIFY Number INT AUTO_INCREMENT

Other than that, you probably need: a) stored routines b) application code