manhattes Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 I am trying to set a column equal to the column in another table where the date matches. I seem to have a problem in my query and I have tried multiple methods. Can someone tell me where the mistake is? $query2 = "UPDATE a SET a.CalDatePrice = b.Close FROM ". $symbol ." b INNER JOIN CleanedCalendar a ON a.BuyDate = b.Date"; You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'FROM CLBS b INNER JOIN CleanedCalendar a ON a.BuyDate = b.Dat' at line 3 Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/300057-cant-update-table-from-another-table/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barand Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 You are mixing DELETE, UPDATE and SELECT syntaxes in the vain hope of getting something to work. Have you tried reading the manual? http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/update.html You'll find it should be like this UPDATE $symbol b INNER JOIN CleanedCalendar a ON a.BuyDate = b.Date SET a.CalDatePrice = b.Close Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/300057-cant-update-table-from-another-table/#findComment-1528841 Share on other sites More sharing options...
manhattes Posted December 30, 2015 Author Share Posted December 30, 2015 You are mixing DELETE, UPDATE and SELECT syntaxes in the vain hope of getting something to work. Have you tried reading the manual? http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/update.html You'll find it should be like this UPDATE $symbol b INNER JOIN CleanedCalendar a ON a.BuyDate = b.Date SET a.CalDatePrice = b.Close That gives me an internal server error. Looking at the syntax page, it would appear it should be formatted like this: $query2 = "UPDATE CleanedCalendar, ". $symbol ." SET CleanedCalendar.CalDatePrice = ". $symbol .".Close WHERE CleanedCalendar.BuyDate = ". $symbol .".Date"; However this also gives an internal Server error Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/300057-cant-update-table-from-another-table/#findComment-1528844 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barand Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 You may need to put $symbol inside backticks in case it contains a reserved word or special characters. ie ... `$symbol` ... Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/300057-cant-update-table-from-another-table/#findComment-1528846 Share on other sites More sharing options...
manhattes Posted December 30, 2015 Author Share Posted December 30, 2015 You may need to put $symbol inside backticks in case it contains a reserved word or special characters. ie ... `$symbol` ... Still doesnt work. $symbol is only letters with no spaces Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/300057-cant-update-table-from-another-table/#findComment-1528848 Share on other sites More sharing options...
manhattes Posted December 30, 2015 Author Share Posted December 30, 2015 Little background on the DB Table1 is CleanedCalendar Table2 is $symbol (there is a symbol table for each symbol which has 1 entry per day making Date a unique column) I want to set the column CalDatePrice = to the price in the symbol table on the matched date. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/300057-cant-update-table-from-another-table/#findComment-1528851 Share on other sites More sharing options...
manhattes Posted December 30, 2015 Author Share Posted December 30, 2015 (edited) I can no longer open the table after I ran this query and it appeared to run correctly. :-( $query2 = "UPDATE ". $symbol ." b INNER JOIN CleanedCalendar a ON a.BuyDate = b.Date SET a.CalDatePrice = b.Close"; Edited December 30, 2015 by manhattes Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/300057-cant-update-table-from-another-table/#findComment-1528854 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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