Question

I want to update multiple rows based on a SELECT sql query.

I want to do it ALL IN AN SQL SHELL!

Here is my select:

SELECT @myid := id, @mytitle := title
FROM event 
WHERE pid>0 GROUP BY title
ORDER BY start;

Then, I want to do an update with this pseudocode:

foreach($mytitle as $t)
BEGIN
    UPDATE event
    SET pid=$myid
    WHERE title=$t;
END

But I don’t know how to ake a loop in SQL.

Maybe there’s a way to make it in a single sql query?

I DON’T WANT ANY PHP!!! ONLY SQL SHELL CODE!!!

Answer 1

I want to update every rows with a pid with the id of the first occurence of an event. Start is a timestamp

I think this should do what you want, but if it doesn’t (I’m not sure about joining a subquery in an UPDATE query) then you can use a temporary table instead.

UPDATE
    event
    JOIN (
        SELECT
            MIN(pid) AS minPID,
            title
        FROM
            event
        WHERE
            pid > 0
        GROUP BY
            title
    ) AS findPIDsQuery ON event.title = findPIDsQuery.title
SET
    event.pid = findPIDsQuery.minPID