Convert SELECT Statement To UPDATE

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.

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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.

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

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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"

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Convert UPDATE Query To INSERT
I have an SQL dump file of a sql database that was generated with the UPDATE export type. The file contains code for generating the various tables inside the database along with the UPDATE lines for the table data.

Is there a way to process the dump file such that all of the UPDATE instructions are converted to INSERT instructions? I have to restore the database from scratch so there are no existing table rows to update.

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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

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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 & "')"

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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.

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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?

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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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)

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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'

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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.

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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..

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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);

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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?

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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

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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:

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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?

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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 .

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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 .

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UPDATE / JOIN STATEMENT
i have problems after updating mysql from 4.x to 5.0.19. This statement should update about 3000 rows but it only does 15 but there are definitely another 2000 rows with an older date and matching nr!

UPDATE tab1,tab2
SET tab2.newdate = NOW()
WHERE tab1.nr=tab2.nr;

I tried the variation with inner joining tab1 as well. same result.
Does anyone has an idea solving this problem? Perhaps it´s a bug?

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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

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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'";

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Combining SELECT Statements Into One SELECT Statement.
I want to take the results from:

SELECT name.empnumber, name.firstname, name.lastname
FROM name INNER JOIN authuser
ON name.empnumber = authuser.uname AND authuser.team = 'PHQ'
ORDER BY name.lastname, name.firstname;


and the results from:

SELECT name.empnumber, name.firstname, name.lastname
FROM name INNER JOIN crew_attendance_6QJ
ON name.empnumber = crew_attendance_6QJ.empno
ORDER BY name.lastname, name.firstname;


And combine them into one query that outputs all of the results both queries would output. Then order those results.

So far I have come up with:

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Select Statement Question (nested Select?)
I have a DB containing 3 fields fullname, inext, and outext. I need to see all the records that have a duplicate entry in inext. I know I can do a distinct query on the inext column but that only gives me the unique ones I need all the different duplicate records.

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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?

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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.

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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?

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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:

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MySql Update Or Insert Statement To Modify A Word In All Caps
I have a field in my database called Subtopic. In this field I have a word LITERATURE in all caps. I need to change the word LITERATURE to LITERATURE followed by a colon then an empty space. Can someone give me the MySql statement I can paste into phpMyAdmin to make this change? Note: The Subtopic field contains the word "literature" but not in all caps because the Subtopic field is part the database that is an encyclopedia. Therefore, I want to change ONLY the word LITERATURE if the word LITERATURE is in all caps.

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Help Me With This Select Statement :)
I have two tables
1- articles table which contains the articleid and article_description
2- articles_translation table which contains translation_id, article_id(foreign key from the articles table) and translation_description

I would like to select all the articles which aren't translated yet... How can i do this in MySQL?

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Is There Something Like A SELECT ALL BUT Statement?
Usually the tables I have to handel have a high number of columns. Additionally, columns are deleted and added dynamically. Most calls made on these tables are select statements:

Consider two tables t1 and t2. A natural join results in the columns a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,z. A usual select statement is the following:

SELECT a,b,c,d,e,f,g,SUM(z) FROM t1 NATURAL JOIN t2 GROUP BY a,b,c,d,e,f,g

This way the column h could be "eliminated". As you can see the select and the group by clause can become fairly long. What I am looking for is a clever way to say "Group by everything but h and z". Is that possible?

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Need Help With SELECT Statement
I have 2 simple tables: emps and rprts.
Table emps has: "ID", "name" (simple string), and some other irrelevant fields.
Table rprts has: "ID", "emp_id" (indication of "ID" in emps table), "rprt" (10-digits time), and "type" (boolean).

I want to select the fields "ID" and "name" from emps, and in addition - for every selected row I want to select rprts's "type", where "rprt" (or "id", doesn't matter) value in the highest.

For example:
emps:
id name
------------------
1 jeff
2 wanda
3 brad

rprts:
id emp_id rprt type
-------------------------------------------
1 3 df 1
2 1 ie 1
3 2 ei 1
4 3 fd 0
5 2 tg 0
6 3 gf 1
For this data, the following should be selected:

id name type
----------------------------
1 jeff 1
2 wanda 0
3 brad 1

I tried several things, but I want to keep it simple and readable, so I'll understand if I'll read it sometime in the future.

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Select Statement
SELECT *
FROM Distance, LorryDetails
WHERE cavan = (Select min (cavan) From Distance where cavan>0);

here is the results i am getting

source ,Cavan, Athlone, Cork, Galway ,LorryID, LorryReg, Position
Athlone 90 0 180 80 3 02-CN-8001 Cork
Athlone 90 0 180 80 7 00-CN-1000 Cavan
Athlone 90 0 180 80 10 02-G-8001 Galway
What i want to try and do is compare the Values with the Column names and get the shortest path. for example when you compare the position cort with the column cork it is 180, cavan is 90, and galway is 80. Galway is the nearest to athlone so i want to narrow down the results to just give me back the row where the position is equal to Galway. Can anyone help me with this.

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SELECT Statement
I am trying to search a table with a statement like the following;

"SELECT name FROM table WHERE state='$state' AND trigger=1 AND areaA='$area' OR areaB = '$area'";

The problem is I need it to find the 'area' value in one of two different colums while matching the 'state' and 'trigger'. My syntax seems to be incorrect and I dont know how to find matching for 2 values while the other 2 columns can be optional. but one must be found.

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Select Statement
I have a transaction table, wich has multiple transactions for one customer. each transaction has type. I want to find all customers who do not have a particular type of transaction.

The problem I have is it seems to find a postive result for every customer because every customer has a least one transaction that is not of this type. and I want the ones who have never had a transaction of this type.

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Select Statement
I have a DB with a lot of tables (of course) :-)

In one of these tables I have the following structure (almost) Table "News" - ID, username, pagetitle, content. I also have a "users" table where I have username, fullname and groupname (simplified)

I want to list out how many "posts" every user has done, sorted by group..

Example:

user 1: 226 pages - Testgroup
user 4: 115 pages - Testgroup
user 6: 29 pages - Testgroup
user 2: 1 pages - Testgroup

user 12: 226 pages - Anothergroup
user 7: 115 pages - Anothergroup
user 9: 29 pages - Anothergroup
user 3: 1 pages - Anothergroup

Can anyone give me a hint in howto setup my select statement?

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SELECT Statement
I have a single table that I want to select each row and group by one field and order by another. Example:

blogger  |   blog text  |  blog date

jim           blah           11/11/07
anna          blah           11/10/07
chris         blah           11/09/07
chris         blah           11/08/07
jim           blah           11/07/07
anna          blah           11/06/07

I want to group by the blogger and date descending, BUT ALSO sort by which blogger has the newest entry My output should be this:

jim           blah           11/11/07
jim           blah           11/07/07
anna          blah           11/10/07
anna          blah           11/06/07
chris         blah           11/09/07
chris         blah           11/08/07

What is the best way to produce my desired results?

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Select Statement!
I have a simple query that is similar to this one:

SELECT distinct b.username from permissions a, users b, links c where
a.user_id = b.id and c.information = 14;

In this case, it selects the all users details from table 'user' that are
permissioned to access a certain information with id = 14.

The problem is that I need to select the users that are not permissioned but
I have sql v3.23 and I canot use union.

In other words, I need to do a select b.username from users b where
b.username not in "the result" of the last select.

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SELECT Statement
I have two tables say TableA and TableB. I want to be able to select
a group of entries from TableB but only display the records that meet
the search criteria and are NOT in TableA. For example.

TableA:
111,John,55
112,Joe,13
113,Matt,55
114,Shawn,55
115,Dave,13

TableB:
990,John,12345678
991,Joe,12345678
992,Matt,12345678
993,Shawn,87654321
994,Dave,87654321
995,Steve,12345678
996,Tom,12345678

I want to display a list of people from TableB belonging to group
12345678 who do not already appear in TableA's group 55. The result
should be:

Joe
Steve
Tom

I have had no luck at all finding a solution. I know this would
probably be pretty simple if I were able to nest queries within
queries but the version of MySQL we are using doesn't support this.

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Select Statement
--------------------
| ID | CODE |
--------------------
| 1 | A |
--------------------
| 2 | A |
--------------------
| 2 | B |
--------------------

I need to get ID that contains both CODE A & B, (i.e., 2 in the above case), is it possible that I can make do this in a single select statement?

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