You can't specify target table for update in FR

时间:2016-01-23
今天执行一个mysql语句的时候,出现错误提示:You can't specify target table for update in FROM clause, 最后通过查找资料,解决了这个错误,给大家分享一下。

今天执行一个mysql语句的时候,出现错误提示:You can't specify target table for update in FROM clause
mysql 语句如下;

UPDATE school_more_info SET comments = replace( comments, '�', "'" ) WHERE school_id IN (SELECT school_id FROM school_more_info WHERE comments LIKE '%�%')


这个sql的意思是将comments字段中的�替换更新成‘, 更新的条件是只有含有�的行才更新,没有�的行则不更新。咋一看,应该没有错啊,我们经常这么写。最后查资料,mysql中不能这么用,那串英文错误提示就是说,不能先select出同一表中的某些值,再update这个表(在同一语句中)。

改写后的sql,这样是可以正确执行的。如下:

UPDATE school_more_info SET comments = replace( comments, '�', "'" ) WHERE school_id IN (SELECT school_id FROM (SELECT *FROM school_more_info WHERE comments LIKE '%�%') AS a)