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MangoSkin
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22 Posts

Posted - 2011-05-02 : 16:57:30
Hi,
I have two tables
Employee and Table EmployeeInsurance

Employee table has EmployeeId , EmployeeInsuranceNumber etc .....
EmployeeInsurance table has EmployeeId and EmployeeInsuranceNumber just two columns.
I need to grab the EmployeeInsuranceNumber from the EmployeeInsurance table and dump it into the Employee table's EmployeeInsuranceNumber column as I am getting rid of the EmployeeInsurance table.
How can I do this?

nigelrivett
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

3385 Posts

Posted - 2011-05-02 : 17:01:44
update employee
set employeeinsurancenumber = b.employeeensurancenumber
from employee a
join employeeinsurance b
on a.employeeid = b.employeeid

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MangoSkin
Starting Member

22 Posts

Posted - 2011-05-02 : 17:12:35
thanks
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