Easy money indeed. Thanks for the help
On Mon, 2013-05-13 at 15:28 -0500, Justin Tocci wrote:
> em stands for "easy money"
>
> update tbl1
> set col3=em.col3,col4=em.col4,col5=em.col5
> from
> (select col3, col4,col5 from tbl2 where col1="criteria") em
>
> Regards,
>
> Justin Tocci
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> On May 13, 2013, at 3:23 PM, Bret Stern <bret_stern(at)machinemanagement(dot)com> wrote:
>
> > PG 8.4
> >
> > Having trouble putting together an update query to update
> > multiple columns in tbl1 from columns in tbl2.
> >
> > update tbl1
> > set col3,col4,col5
> > from
> > (select col3, col4,col5 from tbl2 where col1="criteria")
> >
> >
> >
> > Can someone add to the Postgres Docs (shown below) to help me with this.
> >
> > UPDATE employees SET sales_count = sales_count + 1 WHERE id =
> > (SELECT sales_person FROM accounts WHERE name = 'Acme Corporation');
> >
> >
> > Many thanks
> >
> > Bret Stern
> >
> >
> >
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