On Sunday, August 17, 2003, 10:01:51 AM, Peter Sergeant wrote: PS> It's at times like this I realise my SQL skills only cover the basics...
PS> I have two tables, 'user' and 'users_names'. I'm looking to deprecate PS> 'users_names', so I've altered 'user' to now contain a 'user_realname' PS> column. Both tables have a column 'user_id', which correspond to each PS> other. I'd like to take the data from 'users_names.name' and put it into PS> 'user.user_realname' where the 'user_id' column match. I just can't seem PS> to find the SQL to make MySQL do this. is it not simply: UPDATE user SET user.user_realname = user_names.name WHERE user.user_id = user_names.user_id ? -- Iain | PGP mail preferred: pubkey @ www.deepsea.f9.co.uk/misc/iain.asc ($=,$,)=split m$"13/$,qq;13"13/tl\.rnh r HITtahkPctacriAneeeusaoJ;; for(@[EMAIL PROTECTED] m,,,$,){$..=$$[$=];$$=$=[$=];[EMAIL PROTECTED];[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]eq$$&&$=>=$?;$==$?;for(@$)[EMAIL PROTECTED] eq$_;;last if!$@;$=++}}print$..$/