14/02/2014

[Microsoft Access] UPDATE table SELECT FROM nested query

For those of you forced to use Microsoft Access, thus needing to write bad SQL, here's how you would write an UPDATE table SELECT FROM subquery statement:

UPDATE A, B
SET A.column = B.column
WHERE A.key = B.key

which is equal to SQL's:

UPDATE A
SET column = (
        SELECT B.column
        FROM B
        WHERE A.key = B.key)

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