Re: Joining one to many relational table



Hi Learner,

If you want to update only one of several matching rows then you'll have to
find a way to specify exactly which row to update. Do the rows have a
primary key? Could you target the row with the Min(Pk) where all the other
conditions are met?

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"sqllearner" <sqllearner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I have two tables: Table1 has A,A,B,B,B and Table2 has A, B. I want to join
> Table1 with Table2 and update Table1, but I want to update only 1 for A
> and 1
> for B in Table1. How will I do it?
>
> For Table1 the values for column1 is A,A,B,B,B and the correspoding values
> in column2 is 2,2,3,3,3 and the correspoding values in column3 is
> 0,0,0,0,0.
> In Table2 the values for column1 is A,B and the correspoding values in
> column2 is 2,3.
>
> I want to update Table1.Column3 = 1, where Table1.Column1 = Table2.Column1
> and Table1.Column2 = Table2.Column2. But using joins, I found it updates
> all
> 5 rows in Table1.Column3. But I want to update only 2 rows in
> Table1.Column3,
> as Table2 has 2 rows. More specifically, I want to update one to one in
> this
> one to many relational tables.


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