MYSQL :: UPDATE / JOIN STATEMENT

What Would This Update Statement Be?
I have an array of ids formatted like 1,2,3,4,5

I have a table where there is a field that selects maybe a few of those ids, and is formatted like this: 1,3,5

Update Statement
I am using excel to update an online mysql table. I am having an issue with my update statement and I don't understand why. When I run the statement, I am getting a run time error. In the description of the error, the statement is reading as I would expect it to - but it is not working.

usqlstring = "(UPDATE company set company = '" & ucompany & "' WHERE prospect_id='" & updateid & "')"

Update With If Statement
I'm trying a statement which I cannot figure out what I'm doing wrong on. I've tried every combination that I can think of and stared myself blue with no success.

update cdr set Cost=if(mod(BillSec,6)=0,int(BillSec/6),int(BillSec/6)+1)

The idea is to update Cost with a value depending on the result of a formula. It's an empty field which gets a computed value from other fields. cdr is the table.

Update Statement
here is a update statement I have...

UPDATE support_test
    SET cat_id=42
    WHERE cat_id = 4

It works fine, only thing is I need to update more numbers but I don't want to overwrite the updated numbers.  Example, I want to update 42 to 6 but want to update the original 6's to 12. I have about 30+ numbers that need to be changed, any way to go about this?

SQL-Update-Statement
I have to update all UA-fields in the table idrz_kennzahl with primary
key idrz, where the same idrz in the table per_verwaltung with the
field Amt=12 is.

I designed following statement but it doesn't work:

update idrz_kennzahl
set UA=1234
where
idrz_kennzahl.idrz =
(SELECT per_verwaltung.idrz from per_verwaltung where
per_verwaltung.Amt=12

Update Statement
I am currently updating a table and increasing a column value by 1, the problem is that he don't increase 1 but it does increase the double of the value specified.
Why does it performs the update like this? And how can i solve this problem?

SQL Statement Syntax used: UPDATE table_name SET column_name=column_name+1 WHERE id=1

Version of MySQL: 4.1.7 for Windows installed in Windows 2003 Server.

Update Statement
i have the following problem. in a table i have 3 columns. first a nvarchar field (6 characters) which is filled with point of sales (pos) numbers. the second one is an ip-adress like 10.192.17.30. the third column i want to create based on the second column, means i have to substract e.g. 3 of the ip-number. e.g. the ip-numer is 10.192.17.30 so in the third column should stand 10.192.17.27.

Update Statement
I have two tables, and I want to take data from one table, and overwrite it onto the second. Unfortunately, my SQL is pretty weak.

The first table has a mediumtext column and a id (primary key) column. The second has an id (the same as the first), a number, and a mediumtext column.

I want to take the contents of the mediumtext field with the highest number and replace the contents of the field in the first column with it with the same id.

My instinct is to do it this way:

update forum1post p
set p.pagetext = (select query1.message
from (select pe.message, max(pe.editnum)
from forum1post_edits pe
group by p.postid) query1)
where p.pagetext = 'Why did you all flame my topic. Screw your ****ing forums.'
and p.postid = pe.postid

However, that does not work, as pe is not recognized.

SQL-Update-Statement
I have a litte problem with my sql-database!
I have to update all UA-fields in the table idrz_kennzahl with primary
key idrz, where the same idrz in the table per_verwaltung with the
field Amt=12 is.

I designed following statement but it doesn't work:

update idrz_kennzahl
set UA=1234
where
idrz_kennzahl.idrz =
(SELECT per_verwaltung.idrz from per_verwaltung where
per_verwaltung.Amt=12).

Update Statement
UPDATE `zipLocations` SET `z_zipCode` = '06001' WHERE `z_zipCode` =6001 LIMIT 1 ;

Field Type Attributes Null Default Extra Action
z_zipCode int(5) No 0
z_cityName varchar(50) No
s_stateAbbr char(2) No
z_countyName varchar(50) No
z_areaCodes varchar(50) No

I even went through phpmyadmin found the row clicked on the edit button for that row and updated it. and it still doesn't update.. im' thinking it has to do with the data type being INT...

Why doesn't it update it ?.. It says it was successful.
Affected rows: 0 (Query took 0.0002 sec)

Update Statement
UPDATE products_to_categories SET products_to_categories.categories_id = 666
FROM products, products_to_categories
WHERE products_to_categories.products_id = products.products_id
AND products.products_model = 'PAC-P6512'

Update Statement
Can someone please let me know what is wrong with the following statement?

UPDATE user_attribute, user
SET user_attribute.value = user.login
WHERE user_attribute.userid = user.id;

I keep getting a syntax error but don't see the mistake made.

Update Statement
this works on my machine but not where my site is hosted. They do use an older version of mysql could that be problem

update inv, newprice set inv.cost = newprice.price where inv.itemcode = newprice.itemcode

works fine on my machine her ebut on server i get error..

Join Statement
I need some information on join statements can any of you point me to some good tuts on them.

JOIN Statement
I have 2 tables, 'ballet' and 'ballet_creator' ballet creator is really a reference table for a 3-way relationship but for the moment I don't need to join beyond these two tables.

So I have this join:

"SELECT ballet.*, ballet_creator.* FROM ballet INNER JOIN ballet_creator ON ballet.BALLET_ID=ballet_creator.BALLET_ID WHERE ballet_creator.PROFESSION_ID=2";

and it's working fine. The problem is I have multiple records in 'ballet_creator' with the same BALLET_ID. This is true for some, but not all, BALLET_ID's. When I complete the join I want my result set to include only one row for the ballets that have two records in 'ballet_creator'. I hope I've been clear enough on what I want.

Also, if it helps, in the 'ballet_creator' table when there are multiple records with the same BALLET_ID there is a true/false field in which the one primary record marked true.

JOIN Statement
I am having trouble with a JOIN statement...

I am trying to list each record from TABLE_HC_CAT & then list each record from TABLE_HC_CON under its category that we pulled from TABLE_HC_CAT. I have this working to pull the data, but it is listing the categories_name for each question. Code:

Conditional Update Statement
I have a table with a field of ID numbers. I want to update this field and replace the ID numbers. For example I want every record that currently has the ID number 2,5,6,or 9 to be replaced with a 1. Every record with 1 or 4 to be replaced with 2 ...

I can't seem to form the update statement to do this. I can do them one at a time but this won't work because if I change 2,5,6, and 9 to 1 then when I run then update for 1 and 4 it will change them all. Does this make any sense?

I want some way to be able to use a condition...if id=2 or 4 or 6 set it to 1 and if id= 1 or 4 set it to 2.

My failed attempt:

mysql> update client_software set software_id=1
WHERE (software_id=2 or software_id=5 or software_id=6 or software_id=9)
AND software_id=2 WHERE (software_id=3 or software_id=7 or software_id=8)
AND software_id=3 WHERE (software_id=1 or software_id=4);

DELETE,UPDATE Or Other Statement In WHERE
I would like to let my admins write WHERE statements. . In panel where you can see all users of my site, admin should have input where he can put some filters in WHERE statment. E.G. standard query is
SELECT login FROM USERS .
and admin would write age > 18 and male = 'f'
. php script would conact it and it would execute
SELECT login FROM users WHERE age > 18 and male = 'f'
I have question about security of this solution. Is possible to put in WHERE statement sobe dangeurous statemetns like DELETE of UPDATE?

Update Statement Problem? Plz Help.
I've a simple doubt of whether can or can't i update two tables by using joins as below. the below update statement matched 2 rows one each for two tables but didn't update.

mysql> update audio join pcr_info on audio.audio_sid=pcr_info.pcr_sid set audio.
audio_pid=4896,audio.audio_prgm_num=3,audio.audio_type="MPEGLayer1",audio.audio_
sr=44.1,audio.audio_mode="1_0",audio.audio_bitrate=320,pcr_info.pcr_pid=49 where
pcr_info.pcr_prgm_num=3 and pcr_info.pcr_sid="2501" and audio.audio_pid=4896 an
d pcr_info.pcr_pid=49;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
Rows matched: 2 Changed: 0 Warnings: 0

Very Slow Update Statement
I am having an issue with an UPDATE statement that takes a very long time. I am using
1 table in a schema to update another table in another schema. Below are the create statements and the update statment I am using. Table and column names have been changed to protect the innocent :) Code:

Special UPDATE Statement
UPDATE some_table st SET some_page_no=((select count(*) FROM some_table WHERE some_table_id<st.some_table_id and some_id=st.some_id and some_type='OK') div 10)+1 WHERE some_id=345 and some_type='OK'

I want to use the above to make a fast page index (10 on each page). I had something similar in mssql and it worked, but in myssql I get this error:

"You can't specify target table 'some_table' for update in FROM clause"

What have I done wrong or can the above simply not be done?

Select + Update In One Statement
I have these statements.

$selectdata = "SELECT * FROM imagetrack WHERE fimsid = ".$_GET["fimsid"]." AND name = '".$_GET["service"] . "'";

$query = mysql_query($selectdata) or die(mysql_error());
$update = "UPDATE imagetrack SET seen = seen+1 WHERE fimsid = ".$_GET["fimsid"]." AND name = '".$_GET["service"] . "'";

Basically i was wondering if there was a statement where i can select everything and update the seen in one statement.

Conditions In UPDATE Statement
i have some data to be updated in a specific row - WHERE id=1

data:
$min_time, $max_time, $time, $attempts

so, i would like to calculate new avg and replace min_time with new value, if new min_time is smaller then that one stored in the database.

"UPDATE mytable SET
avg=(avg*attempts+$time) DEV (attempts+1),
min_time=**here i could use help** ??IF(min_time>$min_time)$min_time ELSE min_time??
**and similar with max_time .

Select And Update Statement
Is it possible to combine a select and update statement in mysql? If
so, what is the syntax.

SQL Statement For A Selective Update
I have a table with a field called 'imagepath', in this table is data represented by the two following path types:
1. J:DIRDIRDIR
and
2. 172.21.2.7DIRDIRDIR
What I need to do is udpdate the data to represent the following:
172.21.10.1DIRetc.

In other words don't update the dir paths just update the mapped dirve and old unc to the new unc.

UPDATE Statement Doesn't Work
TABLE - abc

ID NAME
___________
1 hello
12 abc

UPDATE `abc` SET `ID`='5' AND `NAME`='hello' WHERE `ID`='1' AND `NAME`='hello'

wherenver I try to update this table using above sql statement, it doesn't work. I just get "Row match:1 Changed:0" message.

If Condition In Update Statement
I have a table with three fields - stockLevel, backOorder and allocated (there are other fields but these are the inportant ones here).

Is it possible to create a SQL update query that will deduct a qty from the stockLevel if there is sufficient stock and if not deduct as much as possible and put the this amount on allocated and the remainder on backOrder?

Long Old UPDATE Statement
I have the following SQL which gives me the row Im after

SELECT *
FROM staff, staffemails
WHERE staff.users_username='$user'
and staff.staff_id = staffemails.staff_id

thing is I now want to perform an update on the result of this query. Ive tried

UPDATE staffemails
SET is_registered ='0'
WHERE staff.users_username = '$user'
and staffemails.staff_id = staff.staff_id .

Update Statement Not Working
Why does this simple update statement not work with a mysql version 3.23.49,
it does work when using 4.0.24..... ?

UPDATE listitem,vjbase,list SET listitem.showsec = 7 WHERE listitem.id_vjbase = vjbase.vjbase_id AND listitem.id_vjbase = 3 AND vjbase.id_viduser = 61000 AND listitem.id_list = list.list_id AND listitem.id_list = 1 AND list.id_viduser = 61000

MySQL/PHP - SQL UPDATE Statement
I am trying to update one field in my table in MySQL. I cannot get this field to update. Can someone possibly tell me what is wrong with my SQL statement?

$SQL="UPDATE umcritsurv SET IQ_Use_Q9='$IQ_Use_Q9' WHERE fldAuto='54'";

Conditional JOIN Statement
I need some help with an SQL statement. Here is the situation:

tblvendors - holds all information for clients
tbljobtickets - holds all job tickets for vendor jobs

these jobs have a status - open or closed

This statement successfully pulls a recordset of all the vendor information I need joining the jobticket table to the vendors table so I can get a count on the number of open jobs each vendor has, but I want to throw another conditional in the mix only to display jobs that are open (open status = 1) ...

Basic Inner Join Statement
Given two tables, one called shop, the other shop_market, I am trying this statement

select * from shop inner join shop_market on shop.id = shop_market.shop

I get an error that says shop.id does not exist when in fact it does...

Simple Join Statement
I seem to be a complete idiot when it comes to join statements. Here is what I am trying to do...two tables -

TABLE tags
COLUMNS
-id
-tag

TABLE tag_assoc
-id
-article_id
-tag_id

I want to get a list of the tags for a specific article ID. The first table is simply a list of all the tags, while the second table lists relationships between an article and a tag. An article can have many tags.

Help With Simple SQL Statement To Update Zipcodes
I have a varchar(5) field in a database called 'zip_code'. I imported some zipcodes from an Excel spreadsheet, but the spreadsheet had truncated any zipcode that started with a "0" and removed the zero, so the correct zipcode of "08993" was incorrectly placed into the record as "8993".

Would someone help me write a SQL statement to run on the field zip_code that would look at the data, if it was four characters long, add a "0" to the start and keep the remaining four characters in place?

QUERY One Table And Update Another In ONE Statement?
ZIP_CODE:
zip_code
latitude
longitude

customers:
customer_id
...
zip_code
latitude
longitude

The lat and long in the customers table is blank. I want to lookup customers' zip code in the ZIP_CODE, get the related lat & long and update the customers table with that information. The result being that after this query is run, the customers table now has lat & long data.

UPDATE Statement To A Single Position
I am running into problems trying to write SQL to update a single position within a field for throusands of records.

Thousands of records on a table have an incorrect number in a field (UIDY) and I am looking for the most simple way to update them all.

If it were only a single record, I would execute the following:
Update MF_VEND_ADDR_DOC set UIDY = '&4027&7608&7607&1609&VC19&VC19000055&&0&999&M' where UIDY = '&4025&7608&7607&1609&VC19&VC19000055&&0&999&M'

The only difference in those two lines is that I want to change the &4025& to &4027&.

Does anyone know of a way to update thousands of similar records by updating the 5th position in the UIDY field, thus eliminating the need to list out each UIDY value?

CASE Statement In Update Command
I'm trying to update one table (tbl_usage) based on information from another table (tbl_subscriptions) joined by the userID. The usage table tracks the number of times a user hits a page, and decrements the count each time. When the user has a zero count, they are redirected to a warning page.

Each week the count is reset depending on what type of license they have (licenseType) and how many of those licenses they've bought (numLicenses). A group license (G) gives them 100 hits, and an individual license (I) gives them 5 hits.

I'm trying to use a case statement to perform this count reset operation, but I can't seem to get it to work. The following case statement works just fine: Code:

Convert A Nested Update Statement
i have a nested update statement in my sql server as follows
UPDATE DIM_EVENT .

SET INVOICE_AMOUNT =
(SELECT SUM(INV.INVOICE_AMOUNT_TOTAL)
FROM INVOICE INV
WHERE INV.INVOICE_REFERENCE_NUMBER = DIM_EVENT.OBJECT_ID
AND INV.INVOICE_AMOUNT_TOTAL IS NOT NULL)
WHERE DIM_EVENT.EVENT_TYPE_CODE IN ('OFULN', 'OAUTH', 'CRDRL');
what is the equivalent in MySQL.

Nested Select In Update Statement
my nested Select-Update-Statement doesn't work. I think it's because the SELECT-Statement returns an empty set.. is there a posibillity to run this statement if there is no empty set and insert NULL if it is? Or is there another error at all?

CODEUPDATE proj_user_suche SET acronym = (SELECT name FROM acronym LEFT OUTER JOIN link_acronym ON acronym.id_acronym = link_acronym.id_acronym WHERE projekte_nr="23") WHERE id_proj_user_suche="17"

Convert SELECT Statement To UPDATE
How do I convert the following SELECT statement to UPDATE statement? If I'm not mistaken, UPDATE statement could not involve more than one table.

SELECT * FROM F0116 LEFT JOIN F0101 ON F0116.ALAN8=F0101.ABAN8 WHERE F0116.ALCTR='' AND F0101.ABMCU='1'

How Can I Join Two Fields In A SELECT Statement
How can I join two fileds in a SELECT statement, such as...

SELECT FirstName & ' ' & LastName AS Name FROM....

I know I was able to do that in Access, but how does it work in mySQL?

Join 2 Tables In SUM IF Statement-mysql
I am trying to join 2 tables with in a SUM IF statement. the code is as under:

SELECT prod_code, description, description1, quant,
SUM(IF(newsales.location = '05-P', newsales.quant,''))P,
SUM(IF(newsales.location = '10-L', newsales.quant,'')) L,
SUM(IF(newsales.location = '12-M', newsales.quant,'')) M,
SUM(IF(newsales.location = '11-BI', newsales.quant,'')) Bi,
SUM(IF(newsales.location = '14-BR', newsales.quant,'')) Br
from newsales, stock
where newsales.prod_code = stock.prod
group by prod_code

But it gives an incorrect output, but if I romove the join statement, it gives accurate resuly. How to join the 2 tables ie newsles and stock so that the output remains right.

Update With JOIN
There are 4 tables, with various links to one another. I want to update the value "image_path" in one table, based on the values from 2 other tables. The two values for this particluar query are

productid: 16150
option_name: Black

UPDATE xcart_images_W SET image_path = 'test.png'

INNER JOIN xcart_variants.variantid ON xcart_variant_items.variantid
INNER JOIN xcart_variant_items.optionid ON xcart_class_options.optionid
INNER JOIN xcart_variants.variantid ON xcart_images_W.id

WHERE

xcart_variants.productid = '16150' AND
xcart_class_options.option_name = 'Black'

Update Using Join
I do not understand what is wrong with my query:

mysql> update prices,prices_tmp set prices.new_ecampus=prices_tmp.new
where prices.isbn = prices_tmp.isbn;

ERROR 1064: You have an error in your SQL syntax near 'prices_tmp set
prices.new_ecampus=prices_tmp.new where prices.isbn = prices_tmp.' at
line 1

it seems to follow the sample code I have seen:

mysql> UPDATE cds, artists
-> SET cds.title = 'The Funkship Odyssey', artists.Artist = 'George
Clinton'
-> WHERE (artists.artistID = cds.artistID) AND (cds.cdID = '2');
Query OK, 2 rows affected (0.00 sec)
Rows matched: 2 Changed: 2 Warnings: 0

Update & Join
Select q.q_id, q.q_selectforuse from tbl_questions as q join tbl_test_q as tq on(q.q_id=tq.q_id) where tq.course_id=2 and tq.test_id=50

works just great returns all the values i want.

Update tbl_questions as q join tbl_test_q as tq on(q.q_id=tq.q_id) set q.q_selectforuse='yes' where tq.course_id=2 and tq.test_id=50

This only updates one row.

Join And Update
I am trying to join two tables to get a single column to update in one of the tables, I want to update that column in every row returned by the join. imagine two tables (a simplified version):

tables: t1 and t2
t1 has 2 columns t1.id and t1.host
t2 has 3 columns t2.id, t2.status and t2.name

update t2, t1 set t2.name = 'xyz'
where t2.id = t1.id and t2.status = 3;

The problem for me is that only the first row of the result set gets updated and I wanted all rows returned to be updated. It seems so simple and yet I don't know what is wrong here.

Join And Update
Where is the error in this update with join

update snx_comuni set sta_id = 2782
from snx_comuni
inner join snx_province on snx_comuni.provincia_id =
snx_province.provincia_id
inner join snx_regioni on snx_province.regione_id = snx_regioni.regione_id
where snx_regioni.codice_regione = 'PIE'

UPDATE With JOIN
I want to UPDATE one column in a table with values from a different table. Something like this:
update users set offer_amount=offers.amount inner join offers on users.id=offers.user_id;
however, this doesn't work. Basically, I could write a simple PHP script to do this, ut it seems it should be possible within a single SQL statement.
I just want to set users.offer_amount = offers.amount from the relevant offers row...which is possible by joining users.id and offers.user_id.

Update Join
I'm trying to do an update join, setting the value of a field to the count() of another table's field, using a GROUP BY at the end. It doesn't seem to be working. I'm getting a syntax error.
Am I able to do this?