Rich Shepard wrote:
I'm surprised: that worked! I thought the WHERE clause was looking for
equivalency, not an assignment.
SQL generally uses "=" to mean equality test, but sometimes it also uses "=" to
mean assignment; it depends on the context; eg, in an UPDATE statement it can
have both meanings:
update mytbl
set foo = 3
where bar = 5;
Though procedural SQL also uses ":=" to mean assignment.
Thinking that "=" could only ever mean assignment is rather short-sighted; while
many programming languages do that, many more don't.
-- Darren Duncan
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