.ben,
Monday, May 20, 2002, 3:15:11 PM, you wrote:
b> hi. i'm new to the list and have only been playing with mySQL for a few
b> weeks now, i have a question regrading the syntax of an UPDATE statement - i
b> hope nobody minds me asking.
b> i want to uopdate a table with the data from another, i've written the
b> following:
b> update trackinfo SET trackinfo.postcode = newtrackinfo.postcode FROM
b> trackinfo, newtrackinfo WHERE trackinfo.telephone = newtrackinfo.telephone;
b> it should update trackinfo with the postcodes from newtrackinfo, as long as
b> the telephone numbers match - but i get an errror - it complains about the
b> 'FROM...' onwards.
b> am i missign something simple?
Yeah. Description of UPDATE syntax you can find in our manual:
http://www.mysql.com/doc/U/P/UPDATE.html
However, MySQL doesn't support mutli-table updates yet.
b> cheers,
b> .ben
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