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UPDATE .. WHERE

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

The WHERE clause allows for adding a conditional expressions to the UPDATE statement, which restricts the rows to be updated.

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

update(BOOK).set(BOOK.TITLE, "New Title").where(BOOK.ID.eq(1))

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

UPDATE BOOK
SET
  BOOK.TITLE = 'New Title'
WHERE BOOK.ID = 1

UPDATE BOOK
SET
  TITLE = 'New Title'
WHERE BOOK.ID = 1

UPDATE BOOK
SET
  TITLE = 'New Title'
WHERE ID = 1

UPDATE BOOK
FROM BOOK
SET
  BOOK.TITLE = 'New Title'
WHERE BOOK.ID = 1

(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.20, see #10141), or translate your own on our website

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