Question

I’m trying to migrate a site from a joomla system to a drupal. The problem is that drupal needs filename and sourcepath in the same row, but joomla only has filename. I’m looking for a way to add sourcepath before the filename in all the rows in that column.
I’m figuring it’s the UPDATE statement that I should use, but I can’t figure out how to construct the query.

There’s a person with a similar problem here, but I don’t find the answers in that thread helpful to my problem: http://www.daniweb.com/forums/showth…t+value&page=2

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

To append a value from one column to the start of another (assuming both columns are on the same table):

update files
set
   filename = CONCAT(path, filename)
from files

(you may need to correct the table name / column names.. i’m just guessing)