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Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes a Day, 5th Edition

by Ben Forta
January 2020
Beginner
256 pages
5h 11m
English
Sams
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Lesson 16. Updating and Deleting Data

In this lesson, you will learn how to use the UPDATE and DELETE statements to enable you to further manipulate your table data.

Updating Data

To update (modify) data in a table, you use the UPDATE statement. UPDATE can be used in two ways:

Image To update specific rows in a table

Image To update all rows in a table

You’ll now take a look at each of these uses.

Caution: Don’t Omit the WHERE Clause

Special care must be exercised when using UPDATE because it is all too easy to mistakenly update every row in your table. ...

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