Updating Rows Using Multiple Requests - Basic Teradata Query

Basic Teradata Query Reference

Product
Basic Teradata Query
Release Number
16.10
Published
May 2017
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2018-06-28
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Teradata Tools and Utilities

If all of the rows cannot be described by a formula, they must be described individually. The following requests, for example, update the salaries of two employees:

update workforce.employee set salary=salary*1.07
where empno = 10006;
update workforce.employee set salary=salary*1.07
where empno = 10013;

This approach is convenient for a few updates, but if there were hundreds of updates, the script would be very long and inflexible. Each entry would have to be edited to use the script for another list of employees.