Mike Gifford pressed the little lettered thingies in this order...
> Hi Chris,
>
> I think you are onto something here.. However, this has produced another
> problem.
>
> Boget, Chris wrote:
>
> > > UPDATE
> > > WLPbib, WLPpublisher,WLPprofile,WLPbib2profile
> > I think you can only update one table at a time...
> > I could be wrong, though...
>
> I seperated this out into 3 update commands. However, the WHERE statement
> is hanging now:
>
>
> Database error:
> Invalid SQL:
> UPDATE
> WLPpublisher
> SET
> WLPpublisher.publisherID = ''
> WHERE
> WLPbib.bibID = '32' AND
> WLPbib.publisherID = WLPpublisher.publisherID
> MySQL Error: 1109 (Unknown table 'WLPbib' in where clause)
> Please contact the webmaster and report the exact error message.
> Session halted.
>
>
> I can understand that MySQL is getting a bit upset because I am referring
> to fields like WLPbib.bibID when the table hasn't been specifically
> referenced in the query.
>
>
If you do not list a table in the UPDATE parameter, you cannot
reference that table from anywhere else within your query. The same is
true of SELECT statements - you cannot reference a table that is not
listed in the FROM clause. The same is true of UPDATE and many
other commands. There's a table selection parameter for most SQL
queries (at least those that actually query), and you cannot point to
tables later in your query that are not listed.
In other words, you cannot tell it to "update table1 where table2 = ..." If
you haven't told it to do an action (update in this case) on table2, it's
going to wonder what the heck those tables have to do with each other
and exit with an error. This is an oversimplification of what "really"
happens, but this message is way too short to go into that in any detail.
You should either pour through the documentation section at
mysql.com or get the book "MySQL" by Paul DuBois. The docs may
be difficult to get through for newbies, but they are precise and contain a
lot of info. The book on the otherhand starts at the beginning and holds
your hand into the more difficult aspects. The book even goes into
details about how MySQL works that makes it so that you can't do what
you are attempting above.
Christopher Ostmo
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