On 9/5/2012 4:20 PM, Rob Richardson wrote:
Well, I think you want a where clause on your main UPDATE query.  What you 
wrote will set the frequency of every record in the alpha table to the value 
from the beta table, for every record in the beta table that matches an alpha 
record.  (It's late, I'm tired and that's incoherent.  I hope you followed it.) 
 If you have 1000 records in the two tables that match each other, every record 
in the alpha table will be updated 1000 times.

No, that's not true. Every record in alpha will be updated exactly once.
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Igor Tandetnik

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