Updating entry WITHOUT updating timestamp

Question

I have a timestamp in a mysql table with attribute \"ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP\". Is there a way to manually disable updating the timestamp on a special occasion? (eg: upd

Answer 1

If you do change timestemp on update then you have to take into your consideration that if the value was updated but not changed (updated the save value) then it will not update the "on update Current_timestemp" and on this situation you should set the timestemp manually

SET LastUpdatedDate=NOW() WHERE

The idea came from here: Touch MYSQL record to update TIMESTAMP field