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in reply to How to get a placeholder to keep the current column value?

Anyway, my question: can I use placeholders in case I don't want to change the value of a column, without obtaining the old value from the record first?
No. The purpose of placeholders is to prevent injection of sql code (basically save you the trouble of calling quote).
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