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                                    | rjhe22Constraint Violating Yak Guru
 
 
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                                            |  Posted - 2013-03-13 : 08:21:10 
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                                            | is it possible to replace data from one column to another in a table say table aand also at the same time replace data from a column say in table b to a column in table a |  |  
                                    | RobowskiPosting Yak  Master
 
 
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                                          |  Posted - 2013-03-13 : 08:25:20 
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                                          | Yes if there is a unique field you can link them between.How do you have table a and b setup? quote:Originally posted by rjhe22
 is it possible to replace data from one column to another in a table say table aand also at the same time replace data from a column say in table b to a column in table a
 
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                                    | rjhe22Constraint Violating Yak Guru
 
 
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                                          |  Posted - 2013-03-13 : 08:34:29 
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                                          | ya have uniqu key need it something like this but it wont worki have found a few things on the net but they all do it different way and im not sure whats the right way.the one i was following was somthing along these lineUPDATE dbo.TempSimulation     SET dbo.TempSimulation.ThirdSimulation = dbo.TempSimulation.ISIN,        generic.HistoricalPrice.ShareCurrency = dbo.TempSimulation.ShareCurrencyFROM dbo.TempSimulation     INNER JOIN generic.HistoricalPrice ON     	dbo.TempSimulation.ThirdSimulation= hp.ISIN |  
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