Update one table column to populate another table

Question

So i have two table

Detail table

Name - Admno - ModuleCode - PASS

John , 127261, 87772, -

candy , 923823, 2323, -

result table

Admno - ModuleCode - PASS

127261, 87772,Yes

923823, 2323,No

Notice that result table don't have name whereas detail table have and detail table.PASS was not been filled .What i was trying is to fill Detail table column 'PASS' from result table column 'PASS' WHERE both detail.admno = result.admno AND detail.ModuleCode = result.ModuleCode

INSERT into detail SET detail.PASS= `result`.PASS FROM
 `result`, detail WHERE `result`.Admno = detail.Admno 
AND `result`.Code = detail.ModuleCode

but the error i got was Error code 1064, SQL state 42000: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ' FROM result , detail WHERE result .Admno = detail.Admno AND result .Code = ' at line 1 Line 1, column 1

By the way I'm using java in netbean to do sql statement.

Answer 1

You'll need to have a join statement to combine data from multiple tables. Below is likely what you're looking for.

UPDATE detail INNER JOIN `result` ON `result`.Admno = detail.Admno
AND `result`.Code = detail.ModuleCode SET detail.PASS=`result`.PASS