On Saturday 03 January 2004 09:20, John Coryat wrote:
> Problem: I have a table that has a field I want to plug with a value
> from other tables.
[snip]
> I would expect it to look something like this:
>
> update orderheader set total = (select sum(amount) from orderdetail
> where orderdetail.order
Problem: I have a table that has a field I want to plug with a value
from other tables.
I can do it with a perl program and a loop, but want to do it with a
single SQL statement.
Is there a way to do an update that combines a select statement
containing a "where" that uses a field from the row