Re: Update "orphan" entries with SQL

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

LOL tom -i want to hear this, too!

Sorry Paul, just had to jump on this one!

I think Paul is giving you another SELECT, not an UPDATE - but he can 
speak for himself

Vern

On 2/15/2012 9:41 PM, Tom Hightower wrote:
> Paul:  I'm so a noob with SQL - can you example that?
>
> TomH
>
>
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> You should put trans as your primary file, and then do an outer join, giving
> you just the records you need.
>
> Paul Nelson
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Update "orphan" entries with SQL
>
> I have a master file with the following keyfields:
> mcono, mcust, mtickn, mdate
>
> And a transaction file:
> tcono, tcust, ttickn, ttdate, tprod, tunits, tsts
>
> The transaction file matches to the master file:
> mcono=tcono, mcust=tcust, mtickn=ttickn, mdate=ttdate
>
> What I need to do is to update the tsts field to "O" if there is no matching
> master entry for the transaction record.  Here's what I have for the
> selection:
>
> select * from trans where not exists (select * from master where mcono=tcono
> and mcust=tcust and mtickn=ttickn and mdate=tdate)
>
> How do I adjust that so that I update the tsts field?
>
> Thanks!
>
> TomH
>
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