You can use SELECT INTO a temp table, update one of the columns and do INSERT INTO ... SELECT FROM the temp table.


>Thanks for the reply Sergey
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>These table are subject to frequent addition of columns, so I was hoping to find a way to do it without specifying all the columns - something like SCATTER and GATHER
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>NSERT INTO mytable
>SELECT col1, col2, <newValueCol3>, col4, col5, ...
>  FROM mytable
>  WHERE Col3 = <ValueCol3>, ColN = <ValueColN>
>

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>>I need to select a set of rows from a table, based on two columns
>>, give one of those columns a new value in the selected set, and then insert the selected set into the source table.
>>I can bring them down from the server, do the changes and then insert them one at a time, but I'm not crazy about that all those trips to and from the server, I'd rather do it all on the server, but can't figure out how