Re: UPDATE SQL statement

2002-01-03 Thread Carl Troein
James Lowe writes: > ERROR: Query failed (Unknown table 'disclosure' in where clause) > > Is it perhaps because it is an UPDATE? According to the manual, MySQL 4.1 will have multi-table updates. A while back Monty stated a target release date. I'm not quite sure about it, but I think it'll be

Re: UPDATE SQL statement

2002-01-03 Thread James Lowe
Dear Steve: Thanks for your help. Actually, the table is there. the error reads ERROR: Query failed (Unknown table 'disclosure' in where clause) Is it perhaps because it is an UPDATE? In Paul''s book, he says try the where clause with a select first. The following works fine. select fileN

Re: UPDATE SQL statement

2002-01-03 Thread James Lowe
Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? The following SQL gets an error "Disclosure" table not found UPDATE patents set patents.clientNumber=disclosure.clientNumber where patents.disclosureNumber=disclosure.disclosureNumber; Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Jim Lowe Patent Attorney