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is this a UPDATE or a INSERT?<br />
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assuming it's a UPDATE, consider reading this article that explains, though not for MySQL alone, how to build up the UPDATES with JOINS:<br />
<a href="https://www.experts-exchange.com/articles/Database/Miscellaneous/UPDATES-with-JOIN-for-everybody.html" rel="ugc nofollow">https://www.experts-exchange.com/articles/Database/Miscellaneous/UPDATES-with-JOIN-for-everybody.html</a>
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is this a UPDATE or a INSERT?

assuming it's a UPDATE, consider reading this article that explains, though not for MySQL alone, how to build up the UPDATES with JOINS:
https://www.experts-exchange.com/articles/Database/Miscellaneous/UPDATES-with-JOIN-for-everybody.html [https://www.experts-exchange.com/articles/Database/Miscellaneous/UPDATES-with-JOIN-for-everybody.html]

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I am looking to update, I already have an insert using the same field in the users table.
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I am looking to update, I already have an insert using the same field in the users table.

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yes I did, I had moved on to the syntax of the update statement at <a href="http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/update.html" rel="ugc">http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/update.html</a>
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yes I did, I had moved on to the syntax of the update statement at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/update.html [http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/update.html]

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I was really close, thanks for the help.
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I put a syntax suggestion above also, which should help also.
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I put a syntax suggestion above also, which should help also.

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Ok, let's see if I can expalin what I want. &nbsp;Basically I have three tables called record, records, and users. &nbsp;I am migrating data from record to records which is layed out a little better with less data being duplicated.<br />
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I need to read users.id where record.supEmpNum = users.empNum and update records.supID with the returned data where record.id = records.id
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Ok, let's see if I can expalin what I want.  Basically I have three tables called record, records, and users.  I am migrating data from record to records which is layed out a little better with less data being duplicated.

I need to read users.id where record.supEmpNum = users.empNum and update records.supID with the returned data where record.id = records.id

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