Hi - im sure this is a really easy thing to do; im a SQL newbie!
I have a small SQL express database for about 1500 records, spread across a number of tables. I want to simply copy the entry in one table to another. The format of the fields is slightly different, just by length 100 characters vs 50.
I had found the UPDATE solution, where the table to be updated is dbo.customer, and the source table is dbo.custom. I ran the following:
UPDATE
dbo.CUSTOMER
SET
dbo.CUSTOMER.emailhome=dbo.CUSTOM.text7
FROM
dbo.CUSTOM
It seemed to run with no errors but there is no data copied. Can anyone help?? I think it might be something to do with the length of the strings but there is no error message. For reference its the emailhome field that is 100 characters and the text7 is 50.
Im very grateful in advance,
Scott
Just a plain old end user