So much help now my head is spinning! Thanks

How do i declare @OriginalText to be an actual field that alread exists?

Thanks again.

Thanks for both the replies.

I really like that function. How do i declare @OriginalText to be an actual field that alread exists?

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That worked great, thank you.

No, just this table, it's not to make it relational, my requirements are simple I have a table that is relational to other tables but based on an already existing...

Thank you for your help but the answer that i needed was this so i help it helps someone else.

alter table yourtable

add autonumber int identity(1,1)

go

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Thanks for this.

Could you do me a favour? I'm not getting my head round how this works.

The part of my query below is the bit that works out if...

Well this does not matter in this instance i know they are unique based on their stu_id and i just want their contact deatils to populate the wce_contact tables.

So...

I have just been checking the data and can see the query provided by malcolm.o-nions has duplicate rows, i think this is because the wce_ilr table can have multiple rows...

Thank you for your reply. I ran the select part of your script and it looks good but when i run the select on the script i posted the results...

Thanks for the reply, i will work through it and see if i can re-work this. Unfortunatly there is no direct link between the contact and sales table. To link...

Thanks Gail, i over looked all the detail and thought it was the same... Anyway worked perfectly, thanks for teaching me that.

Thanks for both the replies, i kind of see what your saying but if i try either of the following i still get all my rows updated. not jsut the...

Sorry, i copied the wrong query, this is the update query.

UPDATE wce_contact

SET user1 = 'prospect Bath'

WHERE EXISTS

(SELECT h.NOTES, c.user1

FROM ...

Thanks for that, i'll have a read. In answer to your questions

Is there a foreign key between the 2 tables? there is no foreign key

Is it possible for a record...