>>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 ...]

Thanks, UPDATE... FROM sounds strange, but I'll get used to it!