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mohan123
Posting Yak Master

India
196 Posts
Posted - 12/27/2012 :  11:23:48  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
hello all,

i have a table in which i have 2 columns code and description

in first column i have data like
1 - Prevention
2 - Respiratory
3 - Cardiovascular

in 2nd column

NULL
NULL
NULL

i need to update

only Prevention,
Respiratory,
Cardiovascular

into 2 nd column

i have written query like this :

update ECT_HEDIS_SubDomain set SubDomainDescription = b.SubDomainDescription
from ECT_HEDIS_SubDomain b
INNER JOIN ECT_HEDIS_SubDomain a
on substring(a.ECTSubDomainCode,1,4) = b.ECTSubDomainCode

suggest me

P.V.P.MOhan

djj55
Yak Posting Veteran

USA
84 Posts
Posted - 12/27/2012 :  11:33:51  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Please check your example code as it looks like you are joining the table to itself. Also this will only update where ECTSubDomainCode is four characters or less.
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sodeep
Flowing Fount of Yak Knowledge

USA
7173 Posts
Posted - 12/27/2012 :  11:48:58  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Shouldn't it be like this

update ECT_HEDIS_SubDomain 
set ECTSubDomainCode = left(ECTSubDomainCode,Charindex(' - ',ECTSubDomainCode)-1) 
    SubDomainDescription = Substring(ECTSubDomainCode,Charindex('-',ECTSubDomainCode) + 2,len(ECTSubDomainCode))
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