Your query looks good to me, which probably means I'm missing the same thing you are. What happens when you run this query?
RobR -----Original Message----- From: sqlite-users-boun...@sqlite.org [mailto:sqlite-users-boun...@sqlite.org] On Behalf Of dean gwilliam Sent: Monday, October 07, 2013 7:48 AM To: sqlite-users@sqlite.org Subject: [sqlite] updating using a value from another table Here it is tbl itms (std_nm text, raw_nm text) tbl aliases (std_nm text, raw_nm text) Id like to whip through table itms which has a blank col std_nm and fill in as many fields as I can by reading each itms' raw_nm fld finding any matching rec (with the same raw_nm value) in aliases updating the std_nm fld in itms with corresponding std_nm value in the matching fld in aliases Here's my miserable attempt gDb eval "UPDATE itms SET std_nm=(SELECT std_nm FROM aliases as x WHERE raw_nm = x.raw_nm);" Any help much appreciated _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
