One Table having two rows with one colomn having values
Like"Male" and "Female". how to upadte these values
Like "Female" and "Male" in single update statement.

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One Table having two rows with one colomn having values Like"Male" and "Female"..

Answer / murali mohan

Try this,


update testsamp1 set c=decode
(c,'MALE','FEMALE','FEMALE','MALE');


Regards,
Murali

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One Table having two rows with one colomn having values Like"Male" and "Female"..

Answer / selvaraj anna university coe

UPDATE Eptbl SET Sex=DECODE
(Sex,'Male','Female','Female','Male');

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One Table having two rows with one colomn having values Like"Male" and "Female"..

Answer / brahma prakash

Murali your answer is not running on postgres database

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One Table having two rows with one colomn having values Like"Male" and "Female"..

Answer / manikanta

'DECODE' is not a recognized built-in function name in sql
server

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One Table having two rows with one colomn having values Like"Male" and "Female"..

Answer / hitendra yadav

--Try this

UPDATE Eptbl
SET Sex= CASE WHEN SEX='Male'
THEN 'Female'
ELSE 'Male'
END;

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One Table having two rows with one colomn having values Like"Male" and "Female"..

Answer / apsar

update tbl_name set (a,b) = (select b,a from tbl_name where a='Male');

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