Question

I have a table countries with three columns country_name, country_code, country_flag.

The table has 250 rows but the country_flag column is all null at the moment because I have created it now.

The purpose of this column is to contain a path to the flag file (Image) of that country like Images\Flags\UK.gif (each flag file is named as the country code). Now I want to write a query that should pick country code from the country_code column and append the Images\Flags\ string at the start and .gif at the end, something like this

'Images\Flags\' + country_code + '.gif' 

and then update the country_flag column with this value.

If this is possible then it will update the table with less effort and I’ll get all image paths in the country_flag column.

Answer 1

Try this

Update countries set country_flag = 'Images\Flags\' + country_code + '.gif'