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25/07/2011 08:41:57
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01519023
Message ID:
01519056
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19
>>>
>>>
>>>Update TableA Set Field1 = ST.Sum_TOT
>>>FROM TableA INNER JOIN (select sum(FldA+FldB) as Sum_Tot from TableB group b y FldC) ST
>>>ON TableA.FieldC = ST.FieldC
>>
>>A follow up question, if I may, please. The above SQL Update will update only those records in table TableA that have child records in TableB, correct? So if I wanted to update ALL records in TableA, would it be correct to change JOIN with LEFT JOIN then? And then to do NVL(ST.SUM_TOT,0) instead of just ST.SUM?
>
>That sounds right to me.
>
>Tamar

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