when i run this query ......
update item set description=(select description from item where itemid=5384);
i get this error message...
Msg 279, Level 16, State 3, Line 1
The text, ntext, and image data types are invalid in this subquery or aggregate expression.
there is a lot of text in the description column of itemid 5384 (html coding) and i need to set all of the records in the table equal to it......
update item set description=(select convert(varchar(600), description from item
where itemid=5384);:?:
thanks for the reply.... but i got this error
Msg 156, Level 15, State 1, Line 1
Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'from'.
the problem may that description is a ntest column
How can you update a table while querying the same table ? I mean, update item set description=(select description from item where itemid=5384); wouldn't work since its trying to update a column by fetching the value from the column of the same table!
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