Updating lots of database fields in a single row

[Andrew Beverley]

On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 22:57 +0000, Andrew Beverley wrote:
> I've not been developing with Perl for long, so I'd like to know if
> there is a better way of writing the following database query (or is
> there a better place to ask?):

Thanks for the many excellent replies. I'll have a play around with them
at the weekend and make my decision...

It's certainly true that TMTOWTDI!

Andy