Stephan,
You can not join within an update clause - 'update' supports one table
only.
regards,
P
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Stéphane PRIN wrote:
> > database,sql,query
>
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > i have 2 tables
> >
> > 1) test
> > - id_test
> > - country_name
> > - etc...
> >
> > 2) country
> > - id_country
> > - contry_name
> >
> >
> > i want to join this 2 tables in case of deuce of the country_name
> > and update test.id_test with the value of country.id_country
> >
> > i try tis syntax: "update test,country set id = country.id_country where
> > test.country_name = country.country_name"
> > but it doesn't works ...
> >
> >
>
>
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