Get previous value after update - MySql

Question

I have a table which includes id and name

---    -----  
id     name
---    -----
1      pete

My scenarios looks like this

$sql         


        

Answer 1

You cannot fetch the previous name unless you save it to your table as a backup.

If you want to achieve this create one more column in your table and save the current name before updating to the new one.