On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Eli Murray <ejmurra2@illinimedia.com> wrote:
> Thank you all for your help. I'm following along with John McKown's
> suggestion but when I run the update query I get "UPDATE 32956" but the
> personid column in my rawdata table has null values for every record.
>
> Here's the exact query I ran:
>
> UPDATE rawdata SET personid = (SELECT personid FROM assignid WHERE
> rawdata.personid = assignid.personid);
My apologies. I really messed that one up. And your analysis is
correct. I will plead "early morning brain failure". The UPDATE should
look like:
UPDATE CollegeData SET PersonID=SELECT PersonID from AssignID where
CollegeData.Name = AssignID.Name & CollegeData.TotalSalary =
AssignID.TotalSalary;
>
> I think the issue might be that it's only selecting records where personid
> is the same in both tables and right now there are only null values in
> rawdata.personid. What query should I write to SET rawdata.personid =
> assignid.personid WHERE rawdata.employeename && rawdata.totalsalary =
> assignid.name && assignid.totalsalary?
>
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