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A P
How can I go about updating multiple records or deleting multiple records
from a DB at a time?
Jul 22 '05 #1
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A P wrote on 10 jan 2005 in microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general:
How can I go about updating multiple records or deleting multiple records
from a DB at a time?


Without your stating the type of db and db-engine,
this is not exactly answerable.

try:

UPDATE myTable
SET columnText = 'blah'
WHERE columnHow = 'yes' or columnHow = 'maybe'

try:

DELETE FROM myTable
WHERE columnHow = 'crap'
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