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UPDATE .. SET

Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition   ✅ Express Edition   ✅ Professional Edition   ✅ Enterprise Edition

The SET clause allows for setting new values on updated records in a table.

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

update(BOOK).set(BOOK.TITLE, "New Title")

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

ASE, Access, Aurora MySQL, DB2, Derby, Exasol, Firebird, H2, HSQLDB, Informix, MariaDB, MemSQL, MySQL, Oracle, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer, Sybase, Trino

UPDATE BOOK
SET
  BOOK.TITLE = 'New Title'

Aurora Postgres, CockroachDB, Databricks, DuckDB, Postgres, Redshift, SQLite, Snowflake, Teradata, Vertica, YugabyteDB

UPDATE BOOK
SET
  TITLE = 'New Title'

BigQuery

UPDATE BOOK
SET
  BOOK.TITLE = 'New Title'
WHERE TRUE

ClickHouse

UPDATE BOOK
SET
  TITLE = 'New Title'
WHERE TRUE

Hana

UPDATE BOOK
FROM BOOK
SET
  BOOK.TITLE = 'New Title'
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