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I am creating a leave maintainence details

Have tables PAYMAST with fields fname,lname,empcode,brcode,total_el,total_sl

Second table - DETAILS with empcode,el,sl,halfday_el,halfday_sl

How to update the sum of el and halfday_el for each employee from DETAILS
to PAYMAST
May 20 '07 #1
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  1. UPDATE paymast,details SET total_el = (el + halfday_el) WHERE paymast.empcode = details.empcode 
May 21 '07 #2
Thanks a ton
It worked well
May 21 '07 #3

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