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From Francois TETE
Subject inheritance and update
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Msg-id 01be79be$ff8c8960$070010ac@ft.gennevilliers.stream-core.com
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Is it possible to update rows in a derived class via the base class ?
 
I have a base class, let's say BASE and two derived tables DERIVED1 and DERIVED2.
 
Suppose that select * from DERIVED1; returns :
id | name 
1 | joe 
and select * from DERIVED2; returns : 
id | name
2 | bill
So select * from BASE*; returns as expected
id | name
1 | joe 
2 | bill
 
But I can't update the tables using the following query :
update BASE* set name='john' where id=1;
 
Is there another means to do such an update ?
 
Thank you for any answer.
 
Francois 
 
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