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UPDATE using SELECT
Posted by: Chris Grocott
Date: February 11, 2005 11:45AM

Coming from an Oracle background I am used to doing this:

UPDATE accomodation a
SET a.country = (SELECT c.country
FROM country c
WHERE c.country_id = a.country_id);

I could not ge thtis to work so looked up the syntax for this:

update accomodation a
join country c on a.country_id=c.country_id
set a.country=c.country;

Which doesn't work either !!! Basically I am trying to do an update using a select from another table rather than a static value but cannot get it to work. Is this possible in MySQL ?

Chris

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