MySQL - Get a counter for each duplicate value

Question

I have a table with two columns.

+------+------+
| data | num  | 
+------+------+
| a    |      | 
| a    |      |
| a    |      |
| b    |      |
| b    |            


        

Answer 1

it is something like this, but you will need to create procedure

create procedure procname()
begin
DECLARE done,i,j int DEFAULT 0;
DECLARE n,m nvarchar(500) DEFAULT '';

DECLARE cur CURSOR FOR SELECT d.data,d.num FROM tablename AS d ORDER BY DATA;
DECLARE CONTINUE HANDLER FOR NOT FOUND SET done = 1;


OPEN cur;

read_loop: LOOP

set m = n;
SET j = i;
fetch cur into n,i;

IF n = m 
THEN
SET i = i+1;
// UPDATE here your TABLE but you will need one more colomn to be able to UPDATE ONLY one RAW that you need
ELSE 
SET i = 0; //RESET indexer 
END IF;

IF done = 1 THEN
LEAVE read_loop;
END IF;

END LOOP read_loop;

CLOSE cur;
end