Question

Ok I searched through many different places unfortunately it might be easier to ask,

I have to select some data then set salary to increase by 10 percent where my criteria is on another table this is my code

 Select E.Lastname, E.Salary, J.EEO1Classification from Employee as E
 Join JobTitle as J
 on E.JobTitleID = J.JobTitleID 
 Update Employee
 set Salary = (Salary * .10) + Salary
 where [JobTitle.EEO1Classification] = 'Office/Clerical'

Where am I going wrong?

Answer 1

I think this is what you may be trying to achive. Basically an UPDATE using a JOIN to the JobTitle table

MySQL

UPDATE Employee E
INNER JOIN JobTitle as J
  ON E.JobTitleID = J.JobTitleID 
SET Salary = (Salary * .10) + Salary
WHERE [J.EEO1Classification] = 'Office/Clerical'

Alternate syntax

UPDATE
    e
SET
    Salary = (Salary * .10) + Salary
FROM
    Employee E
    JOIN
    JobTitle J ON E.JobTitleID = J.JobTitleID 
WHERE
    J.EEO1Classification = 'Office/Clerical'