>I take all that back. This does not work.
>update ss set ss.siteCat = 1
>from site as ss join trans t
>on t.siteno = ss.siteno
>where ss.recno = 9000016
So, it seems SQL Server goes a little bit far more into support extra syntax, such as the one in my example. I got used to that. But, when trying the same SQL on that backend, it didn't. So, I guess that part was not fully SQL ANSI compliant. Is that also your findings?