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Updating Rows

This command updates values in the table 'person'. Small negative accounts are set to 0.

UPDATE person SET account = 0

WHERE account > -10 AND

account <= 0

SELECT cno, firstname, name, account

FROM person

Note that all rows of the table are updated when a WHERE condition is missing.

The general format of the UPDATE statement is:

UPDATE..... table name

SET........ modification of the column values

WHERE...... which rows


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