I am having problems getting an update to work correctly. Assume that I have two
tables, employee and office. Employee has two fields, employee_id and employee_name,
and office has three fields, office_id, office_number, & employee_id.
I have been using inner join to link the tables together when pulling information out
of the database, but I can't get join to work with update.
Say I want to update the office_number for a particular employee. I would have to get
the employee_id from the employee table by referencing the employee_name in order to
update the row with the corresponding employee_id in the office table.
Thus far I have been trying statements like this:
update office inner join employee using (employee_id) set office_number="XXX" where
employee_name="XXXXXX";
I know that I could work around this via Perl, but I would rather have mysql do the
work.
Any help would be appreciated,
Thanks,
Phil
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