>>Hi,
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>>I am trying to update a column of one table based on the value in another table. I could write a little VFP program to do it but I want to learn to do it in T-SQL. Here is what I want to do:
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>>Table1 has column UserID nchar(8) and UserPk int.
>>Table2 has column UserID nchar(8) and UserPk int. The column UserPk has only 0 (zero). I want to update the entry in column UserPk of Table2 based on matching row (by UserID) in Table1.
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>>How do you do it in T-SQL?
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>Same as you do in VFP
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>UPDATE T1 set UserPK = T2.UserPK from Table1 T1 INNER JOIN Table2 T2 on T1.UserID = T2.UserID where T1.UserPK = 0
Thank you. Actually I would probably do it a "long" way in VFP using a .PRG procedure with SEEK(). Your approach is much better.
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