Updating multiple records

As Jason discussed in the video, by using a where clause that selects more records, you can update multiple records at once. Unlike inserting, updating multiple records works exactly the same way as updating a single record (as long as you are updating them with the same value). It's time now to practice this!

For your convenience, the names of the tables and columns of interest in this exercise are: state_fact (Table), notes (Column), and census_region_name (Column).

Build an update statement to update the notes column in the state_fact table to 'The Wild West'. Save it as stmt.
Use a where clause to filter for records that have 'West' in the census_region_name column of the state_fact table.
Execute stmt_west via the connection and save the output as results.
Hit 'Submit Answer' to print rowcount of the results.

Take Hint (-30 XP)

Exercise

Updating multiple records

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