Clarification: I DON'T want to update the last_visit field if there
is no matching event record...

I managed to get this to sort of work:

update enduser E
set E.last_visit = (select MAX(EL.event_time)
                    from event_log EL
                    where EL.enduser_acnt = E.enduser_acnt
                    group by EL.enduser_acnt);

but it updated the last_visit field to the default value if it found
no matching event_log row... which I don't want to happen.

thanks,
andy

Andy Wallace wrote:
Hey all -
I have two tables - an event_log table, and a user table. There is
a "last_visit" column in the user table, and I want to update it from
the event_log with the most recent event timestamp. And I want to do
it without a subquery, eventually, both these tables will be pretty
large, especially the event_log.

I tried this:

update enduser E join event_log EL on EL.enduser_acnt = E.enduser_acnt
set E.last_visit = MAX(EL.event_time)
group by EL.enduser_acnt

but I get an error on the group by. The pertinent tables sections are:

table event_log
   event_time  TIMESTAMP
   enduser_acnt  int

table enduser
   enduser_acnt   int
   last_visit     datetime

Any help appreciated. Thanks...
andy



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