Thread: Update Help

Update Help

From
"Yudie@axiontech.com"
Date:
Hi,
Let say I have 2 Product table, both of them has columns ProductID and Price
What is the update command if I want to update all Prices of first table to be equal with Price in second table?
 
Please Help.
 
Yudie

Re: Update Help

From
Oliver Elphick
Date:
On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 17:38, Yudie@axiontech.com wrote:

> Let say I have 2 Product table, both of them has columns ProductID and
Price
> What is the update command if I want to update all Prices of first
table to be equal with Price in second table?

UPDATE table1  SET price =      (SELECT price        FROM table2       WHERE table1.product = table2.product);


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Re: Update Help

From
Peter Eisentraut
Date:
Yudie@axiontech.com writes:

> Let say I have 2 Product table, both of them has columns ProductID and
> Price What is the update command if I want to update all Prices of first
> table to be equal with Price in second table?

Possibly you mean something like this:

UPDATE first_table SET price = (SELECT price FROM second_table WHERE
second_table.productid = first_table.productid);

Possibly the answer is also to redesign your schema to avoid redundant
data.

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