Thank you for the principal. I had to rewrite a little since I only wanted to affect the rows that were using the max entry.
Adam On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Igor Tandetnik <i...@tandetnik.org> wrote: > On 12/18/2012 12:27 PM, Adam DeVita wrote: >> >> There is a table products where has a location id. Unfortunately >> duplicate dictionary names got added to list of locations >> >> products has locationid and a bunch of other stuff >> >> I can easily get the max (bad) and min (good) location ids >> associated with each name (I know I should have made the name field >> UNIQUE... mistakes were made years ago) >> >> how do I write an update that essentially says >> >> update products set locationid = good where locationid = bad , but do >> it for each good & bad pair ? > > > update Products set locationid = ( > select min(locationid) from Locations where name = > (select name from Locations L where L.locationid = > Products.locationId) > ); > > -- > Igor Tandetnik > > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users -- VerifEye Technologies Inc. 905-948-0015x245 151 Whitehall Dr, Unit 2 Markham ON, L3R 9T1 Canada _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
