I want to put only the max date into the field... I was thinking that max
was a group function, but now that I type that out loud, perhaps I'm not
using all the neurons available... hmmm...


thanks,
andy

Martin wrote:
> Hi Andy-
>
> Is there a reason why you are using Query group by clause in UPDATE
> statement?
>
> M
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Wallace" <awallace@cisdata.net>
> To: "mysql list" <mysql@lists.mysql.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 1:07 PM
> Subject: Re: question about update/join query
>
>
>> Clarification: I DON'T want to update the last_visit field if there
>> is no matching event record...
>>
>> I managed to get this to sort of work:
>>
>> update enduser E
>> set E.last_visit = (select MAX(EL.event_time)
>> from event_log EL
>> where EL.enduser_acnt = E.enduser_acnt
>> group by EL.enduser_acnt);
>>
>> but it updated the last_visit field to the default value if it found
>> no matching event_log row... which I don't want to happen.
>>
>> thanks,
>> andy
>>
>> Andy Wallace wrote:
>>> Hey all -
>>> I have two tables - an event_log table, and a user table. There is
>>> a "last_visit" column in the user table, and I want to update it from
>>> the event_log with the most recent event timestamp. And I want to do
>>> it without a subquery, eventually, both these tables will be pretty
>>> large, especially the event_log.
>>>
>>> I tried this:
>>>
>>> update enduser E join event_log EL on EL.enduser_acnt = E.enduser_acnt
>>> set E.last_visit = MAX(EL.event_time)
>>> group by EL.enduser_acnt
>>>
>>> but I get an error on the group by. The pertinent tables sections are:
>>>
>>> table event_log
>>> event_time TIMESTAMP
>>> enduser_acnt int
>>>
>>> table enduser
>>> enduser_acnt int
>>> last_visit datetime
>>>
>>> Any help appreciated. Thanks...
>>> andy
>>>
>>>
>>
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