Thanks, I haven't thought about that, then it's better to write INNER JOIN to make that more clear.

>- SQL Server is picky about order of the clauses in a statement. They should be in the order as shown in BOL
>- 'WHERE HistItems.DelFlag = 0' effectively turns your LEFT JOIN into INNER JOIN.
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>>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?