I think this can be done with one SQL statement, but I'm not sure.
I have two tables: table t contains key k, another field f, and a bunch
of other stuff.
In a poor design decision, table tsubset contains a small number of
"pointers" to t. I should have used the k column; instead I used the f
column (it is unique, but not the primary key).
I want to fix this.
I altered tsubset to have two columns, f and k, where k will be a
foreign key referencing t(k).
I now need to copy all the k values from t to tsubset.
I think I want to do something like this:
foreach f in tsubset
update tsubset set k=(select k from t, tsubset where t.f=f);
end
Can this be done with one SQL statement?
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