"Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 10:15:17AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> test mjom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > create table tbl1 ( id integer primary key autoincrement, ref >> > integer, sts varchar(16)); >> > insert into tbl1 (ref,sts) values (10, 'ready' ); >> > insert into tbl1 (ref,sts) values (20, 'ready' ); insert into tbl1 >> > (ref,sts) values (30, 'ready' ); >> > update tbl1 set sts='busy' where sts='ready' ORDER BY ref DESC LIMIT 1; >> > >> > => i would like to have only the third record (30,'busy') updated. >> >> How about something like >> >> UPDATE tbl1 >> SET sts = 'busy' >> WHERE ref = >> (SELECT ref >> FROM tbl1 >> WHERE sts = 'ready' >> ORDER BY ref DESC >> LIMIT 1); > > That won't work. Instead: > > UPDATE ... > WHERE id = > (SELECT id > FROM tbl1 > WHERE ... > );
Yeah, what he said. :-) Duh! Sorry about that. Derrell
