I am working with an Oracle DBA (I am not an Oracle DBA. More like Oracle DBfail) who is asking me to write the code to use for an update. Since I am an admitted Oracle idiot, I hope Ars can help ...

Well, if you happen to be using Sql Server you can do that sort of thing in T-Sql. In Oracle, you can also accomplish the same thing using pl/sql. Either way i'd do it in a stored ...