Question

I have a MAssive sql query… its of a few tables i innerjoined… and now, i have to update them..
I have Noooo idea how to do that.. this is my query (thats works).
And after it is one way i tried to get the update statement to work, but… i obviously i did not succeed..

My sql query is

select t1.name AS DistroName,t2.name AS OriginName, t3.name AS DesktopName, t3.name AS desktoptest , t2.country, t1.status, t2.description , t5.name as oldtest, t6.name as multitest, t4.name as begintest
from alldistros t1 
LEFT join origin t2 on t1.name=t2.name
LEFT join desktop t3 on t2.name=t3.name
LEFT join beginnerdistributions t4 on t3.name=t4.name
LEFT join oldcomputers t5 on t4.name=t5.name
LEFT join multimedia t6 on t5.name=t6.name
WHERE t1.name = 'Absolute LInux'

Now how do i update, lets say for instance the t1.name field to “CatMan” where t1.name = ‘Absolute LInux’?

i literally cant see any logical way of doing that in this particular case…

Thank you, Ruan

Answer 1

 UPDATE alldistros SET name="CatMan" WHERE name = "Absolute Linux"

I think you’re getting the concept of tables and queries mixed up.