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Asked: 2026-05-25T20:53:32+00:00

I created a table in the database that has the data like this: Now

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I created a table in the database that has the data like this:enter image description here

Now i have written a query that updates the contact field by concatinating name and email fields:
UPDATE MyContacts SET contact=(SELECT name||'--'||email FROM MyContacts);

Here the problem is after executing the query the table is as below:

enter image description here

Why is it happening like this? In oracle i never faced this problem. Please help me. Thank you

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  1. Editorial Team

    Right now you’re not specifying the correct row to retrieve the values from. Try something like this:

    UPDATE MyContacts SET contact = name||'--'||email;

    EDIT: Glad it worked. Your first issue was that your sub-select uses a SELECT statement with no WHERE clause (SELECT name||'--'||email FROM MyContacts will return 3 rows). One possible solution would be for SQLite to throw an error and say You’ve tried to set a column to the result of an expression that returns more than 1 row: I’ve seen this with MySQL and SQL Server. However, in this case SQLite appears to just use only the very first value returned. However, your second error then kicks in: since you don’t narrow your UPDATE statement with a WHERE clause, it uses that first value returned to update EVERY single row, which is what you see.

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