>is something like this possible? I get an error, but I thought it should have worked:
>
>UPDATE EmpItems
> LEFT JOIN HistItems ON HistItems.eiKey = EmpItems.eiKey
> WHERE HistItems.DelFlag = 0
> SET EmpItems.itOnPosted = 1, EmpItems.itBalAmt = HistItems.itBalNew + HistItems.itPostCalc
>
>Maybe I'm doing something wrong?
You are missing FROM clause. The syntax for UPDATE -SQL command is:
UPDATE Target
SET Column_Name1 = eExpression1 [, Column_Name2 = eExpression2 ...]
[FROM [FORCE] Table_List_Item [[, ...] | [JOIN [ Table_List_Item]]]
WHERE FilterCondition1 [AND | OR FilterCondition2 ...]