Re: update with select in sql

On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Carel Teijgeler wrote:

> something  like this, perhaps:
>
> UPDATE inship SET SHTEL# = select CMTEL from arcust where SHCOMP=CMCOMP
> and SHBRAN=CMBRAN and SHACC=CMACC and SHCODE='00' and SHTEL# = ' '

When I try this I get:

Token CMTEL was not valid. Valid tokens: , WITH WHERE.

and the cursor is on CMTEL.  Why isn't file INSHIP needed in the select
statement?  All the SH* fields are from file INSHIP and the CM* fields are
from file ARCUST.

> On 30-8-02 at 10:36 James Rich wrote:
>
> >select SHTEL#,CMTEL from inship,arcust where SHCOMP=CMCOMP and
> >SHBRAN=CMBRAN and SHACC=CMACC and SHCODE='00' and SHTEL# = ' '
> >
> >What I want to do now is update the SHTEL# field in file inship with the
> >value in CMTEL in file arcust according to the same conditions specified
> >above.  Anyone know how to do this in SQL?

James Rich