RE: Does Update allow for aliases?

2007-01-17 Thread Jonathan Langevin
I concede to the MySQL engineer :-) -Original Message- From: Shawn Green [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 3:30 PM To: Jonathan Langevin Cc: Chris White; Richard Reina; mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: Does Update allow for aliases? Hi all, Multi-table

Re: Does Update allow for aliases?

2007-01-10 Thread Chris White
Richard Reina wrote: I am trying to update from one table to another but I get a syntax error when I try: UPDATE from maindb.orders o, altdb.orders ao SET o.price=ao.price WHERE o.ID=a.ID; First off, it'd be best if possible (I know some cases prevent it) to upgrade your server. The

Re: Does Update allow for aliases?

2007-01-10 Thread Nils Meyer
Hi Richard, Richard Reina wrote: I am trying to update from one table to another but I get a syntax error when I try: UPDATE from maindb.orders o, altdb.orders ao SET o.price=ao.price WHERE o.ID=a.ID; If update does not support aliases, is there another way to do this query? I am usin

RE: Does Update allow for aliases?

2007-01-10 Thread Jonathan Langevin
PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 12:10 PM To: Richard Reina Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: Does Update allow for aliases? Richard Reina wrote: I am trying to update from one table to another but I get a syntax error when I try: UPDATE from maindb.orders o, altdb.orders ao

Re: Does Update allow for aliases?

2007-01-10 Thread Shawn Green
Hi all, Multi-table updates are not possible for versions older than 4.0.4. (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/update.html) so the operation is not possible with your current version. To be complete, though, each of you missed the second syntax error in his statement Jonathan

Re: Does Update allow for aliases?

2007-01-10 Thread ViSolve DB Team
Hi Reina, Try like: mysql UPDATE maindb o,altdb ao set o.price =ao.price where o.id=ao.id; This will do good. Thanks ViSolve DB Team - Original Message - From: Richard Reina [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 10:08 PM Subject: Does