January 9, 2013 at 7:45 pm
Hi All,
I was just wondering if there was a way to update a field based on it's value multiple times but in one script without having to do a separate update statement every time as below. So for example:
UPDATE Table
SET col1 = 'aaa'
WHERE (department = 'AAA')
UPDATE Table
SET col1 = 'bbb'
WHERE (department = 'BBB')
UPDATE Table
SET col1 = 'ccc'
WHERE (department = 'CCC')
Thanks for your help in advance
January 9, 2013 at 9:03 pm
You could possibly do this:
UPDATE Table
SET col1 =CASE department
WHEN 'AAA' THEN 'aaa'
WHEN 'BBB' THEN 'bbb'
WHEN 'CCC' THEN 'cc'
ELSE col1 END
WHERE department IN ('AAA', 'BBB', 'CCC')
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January 9, 2013 at 10:46 pm
Thanks heaps
Kris
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