I think it's:

Update Accounts Set Budget = NewData.Budget from NewData, 
Accounts Whe NewData.Account = Budget.Account

Ben Petersen



On 13 Oct 2002, at 16:54, Atrix Wolfe wrote:

> hello again, im trying to do another sql statement but i've been told
> its not possible to do it and wanted to confirm that.
> 
> i basicly have 2 tables,  the first table called NewData has account
> and budget.  The second table is Accounts and has account, budget and
> some other columns that we need to preserve.  What im trying to do is
> update Accounts with the new budgets from NewData.   If in NewData
> there is account 3 and budget $5.00 then i need that to update account
> 3 in Accounts to have a budget of $5.00.  There are a few thousand of
> these entires in NewData and i was hoping there was some way to do it
> without a cursor loop.  Something like:
> 
> update accounts set budget=t2.budget from accounts t1,NewData t2 where
> t1.account=t2.account
> 
> what i heard exactly was "in standard SQL, multi-table update does not
> exist."
> 
> any ideas? (:


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