RE: MI Updating columns in Mapbasic

2000-09-08 Thread Doug
Jim Just remove all the 'looping' code - the update command will work on an entire selection/table unless you use the optional where clause. No 'do whiles' needed! Therefore all you need to use is: Select * FromTablename Where_col1 15 Update Selection Set _col1 = _col2 that's

RE: MI Updating columns in Mapbasic

2000-09-08 Thread pel
bcc: Peter Laulund/MI/KMS) Vedrørende:MI Updating columns in Mapbasic Hi all, I'm (slowly) learning mapbasic and I'm trying to update the value of _col2 based on the number in _col3 * _col1. To this end I have tried 2 different ways of achieving this. 1. Select all the records in Tablename

MI Updating columns in Mapbasic

2000-09-07 Thread Jim Wilson
Hi all, I'm (slowly) learning mapbasic and I'm trying to update the value of _col2 based on the number in _col3 * _col1. To this end I have tried 2 different ways of achieving this. 1. Select all the records in Tablename that fall within certain parameters and then update Tablename from