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I've found a very common belief among users of T-SQL (both DBAs and Developers) is that you can't use an alias with the UPDATE statement. As best I can tell the reason for this is because of a simple misunderstanding of the UPDATE command syntax.
SQL aliases are used to give a table, or a column in a table, a temporary name. Aliases are often used to make column names more readable. An alias only exists for the duration of that query. An alias is created with the AS keyword.
The basic syntax of a table alias is as follows. SELECT column1, column2.... FROM table_name AS alias_name WHERE [condition];
SQL UPDATE SyntaxTo use the UPDATE method, you first determine which table you need to update with UPDATE table_name . After that, you write what kind of change you want to make to the record with the SET statement. Finally, you use a WHERE clause to select which records to change.
The syntax for using an alias in an update statement on SQL Server is as follows:
UPDATE Q
SET Q.TITLE = 'TEST'
FROM HOLD_TABLE Q
WHERE Q.ID = 101;
The alias should not be necessary here though.
You can always take the CTE, (Common Tabular Expression), approach.
;WITH updateCTE AS
(
SELECT ID, TITLE
FROM HOLD_TABLE
WHERE ID = 101
)
UPDATE updateCTE
SET TITLE = 'TEST';
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