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Recently, for a project I am working on, I needed a conditional update of one column's value with the value of a different column part of the conditional. Luckily, this is possible and the syntax is what I expected it to be. In my specific case I wanted to keep track of the total times an object was updated, and the number of times it has been updated on the current list. Hence I needed two counters: one for the total number of updates, and one that's reset to 0 each time the list_id changes. Both columns where set default to zero. An outline of the SQL statement I use follows:

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