MySQL update statement

[shaggycap]

I am struggling with a SQL statement and hoped someone would be able to help :)

I have 2 tables:

customer_depots
contacts

Each table contain fields called 'customer_depot_id' and 'address_id'.

What I want to do is update the address_id in the contacts table, with the value of the address_id in the customer_depots table, only where the customer_id values match in each table, AND the address_id in the contacts table is equal to zero.

Does this make sense?

So, update address_id in contacts,
where address_id in contacts = address_id in customer_depots
and address id in contacts = zero.

This is because a number of address_id's are missing from the contacts table, and I want to replace them with the correspondingvalue from the other table.

I have got as far as a SELECT statement, which goes someway to explain things, but I need an UPDATE statement like I have explained above.

[code]SELECT cd.ADDRESS_ID FROM customer_depots cd, contacts con WHERE con.CUSTOMER_DEPOT_ID = cd.CUSTOMER_DEPOT_ID AND con.ADDRESS_ID = 0
[/code]
Hope someone can help :-*

thanks.

[shoz]

[code]
UPDATE
contacts AS con
INNER JOIN
customer_depots AS cd
ON
con.CUSTOMER_DEPOT_ID = cd.CUSTOMER_DEPOT_ID
SET
con.address_id = cd.address_id
WHERE
con.address_id = 0
[/code]
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/update.html

[shaggycap]

Thanks Shoz


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