SQL UPDATE Statement

The UPDATE Statement is used to modify the existing rows in a table.

The Syntax for SQL UPDATE Command is:

UPDATE SET column_name2 [WHERE condition] column_name1 = = value2, table_name value1, ...

table_name - the table name which has to be updated. column_name1, column_name2.. - the columns that gets changed. value1, value2... - are the new values. NOTE:In the Update statement, WHERE clause identifies the rows that get affected. If you do not include the WHERE clause, column values for all the rows get affected. For Example: To update the location of an employee, the sql update query would be like,

UPDATE SET WHERE id = 101;

To change the salaries of all the employees, the query would be,

employee location ='Mysore'

UPDATE SET salary = salary + (salary * 0.2);

employee