Re: UPDATE IN STRSQL USING JOINED FILES

Thanks David, thought so myself.

----- Original Message -----
From: David Morris <dmorris@plumcreek.com>
To: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Monday, August 02, 1999 7:30 PM
Subject: Re: UPDATE IN STRSQL USING JOINED FILES


> Oludare,
>
> The only way I know of on V3R7 is to create a copy of the file and load it
> using a select with join.  Then copy or rename that file.  Best practice
is to
> lock the file from update during the time it takes to complete this task.
All
> of this can be performed from SQL, but it is rarely worth it.
>
> David Morris
>
> >>> "oludare" <oludare@ix.netcom.com> 08/02/99 03:20PM >>>
> I am on V3R7 and the statement is invalid "bsc4tx is invalid. Valid
tokens: + ) -"
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Buck Calabro <mcalabro@commsoft.net>
> To: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
> Sent: Monday, August 02, 1999 3:11 PM
> Subject: RE: UPDATE IN STRSQL USING JOINED FILES
>
>
> > I am on V4R3 and this works for me:
> > update actphy01 set b1u2tx = (select bsc4tx
> >  from cusphy01 where bslknb = b1lknb)
> >
> > More information on SQL programming can be found at:
> >
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com:80/cgi-bin/bookmgr/BOOKS/QB3AQ802/CCONTENTS
> >
> > Section 5.2 of the V4R3 manual has a lame example of how to do it.  To
my
> > knowledge, you can't update a JOIN table.
> >
> > Buck Calabro
> > Billing Concepts Albany, NY
> > mailto:mcalabro@commsoft.net
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: oludare
> > > Sent: Monday, August 02, 1999 12:38 PM
> > > To: RPG AS/400 UserGroup; AS/400 Midrange Usergroup
> > > Subject: UPDATE IN STRSQL USING JOINED FILES
> > >
> > > How do you change value from a field with value from a field in
another
> > > file using STRSQL. The two files must be  join with another field for
the
> > > operation.
>
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