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  3. April 2009

Re: Newbie SQL problem with UPDATE - SQL0811 - repost

Bob Schwartz wrote:

And guess what ... I have a bunch of students with two records/same PIN in LRICEXTWF.
One for type of service equal P=Primary and another record for type of service S=Secondary.

I ended up doing this:

UPDATE LRACCTWF a SET a.NUMBER = (SELECT b.NUMBER FROM LRICEXTWF b WHERE DIGITS(a.lrpin) = substr(b.stude00001,1,5) and SERVI00001='P') WHERE EXISTS (SELECT * FROM LRICEXTWF b WHERE DIGITS(a.lrpin) = substr(b.stude00001,1,5) and SERVI00001='P')

Which allowed the SQL statement to run w/o errors because I omitted the Secondary service records.
Way to go gang! I can't thank you enough, maybe I can contribute something of value in the future.

I'd love to see how the time/effort to reach this point would compare to creating a simple RPG program to do the same thing.

I'd probably do it in SQL, too; but I still have to wonder.

Tom Liotta


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