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Hi I'm trying to update Table1 from Table2, joining on key columns, but I want to update Table1 with the sum of data from Table2, e.g. something like update Table1 set col2 = (select sum(col2) from Table2 where Table1.col1=Table2.col1. Any ideas how to do this? I can do it in Sybase but I'm...

don't know if this helps, but another way to do this is extract data with another separator ( e.g. use -s"~" in sql command). Then load into Excel using this as separator. ( we have to do this as we need to keep comma's in the data but suppose it's not important for you)

thanks to both of you for reply. i'll give it a go in test environment. (after doing websearches for this, i found all kinds of answers!)

I've had a long running argument with a colleague about truncate table. Is it (a) logged (b) minimally logged or (c) non-logged. I said it was (b) as i thought you could truncate table and still recover using transaction log dumps, but he reckoned it would screw up transaction dump (like...