Nested Queries? -> Set Value = (Select Value From OtherTable WHERE)

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3161997

  •  02-10-2019
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Question

I'm looking to do a single query to update a database. Here is some pseudocode:

UPDATE Table1 SET Table1.Value = (SELECT Value FROM Table2 WHERE Table2.Id==2) WHERE Table1.Id == 4
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Solution

This will only work if your subquery (SELECT Value FROM Table2 WHERE Table2.Id=2) only returns one value. Also replace the == with = in your subquery as I have.

I believe updating it to what I have below would make it work no matter what:

(SELECT Top (1) Value FROM Table2 WHERE Table2.Id=2)

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