Using MySQL alone - If I make a basic update to a table like this:
UPDATE `SOMETABLE` SET `NAME` = 'John' WHERE `ID` = 1;
And the value of NAME
= 'John' was already 'John' - in other-words - nothing is new, nothing to update. MySQL returns "Affected rows: 0 (Query took 0.0007 sec)"
If I make the same call - now using CodeIgniter - and then retrieve the affected rows like this:
$data = array(
'NAME' => 'John'
);
$this->db->where('ID', 1);
$this->db->update('SOMETABLE', $data);
$affect = $this->db->affected_rows();
echo $affect; // $affect echos 1
$affect ends up equaling 1. I haven't got a problem with this - I just expected that if there was nothing to update - that codeigniter would behave the same way as MySQL and not edit something that does not need to be updated, and return 0 for affected_rows().
- Have I got this wrong some way?
- Is codeigniter overwriting 'John'? or not?