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Subject: Re: Updating 457 rows in a table
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> On May 19, 2024, at 09:54, Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com> =
wrote:
>=20
> Specifically, in the 'people' table I want to change the column =
'active'
> from false to true for 457 specific person_id row numbers.

UPDATE people SET active=3Dtrue WHERE id IN (...);

The ... can either be an explicit list of the ids, or a SELECT id WHERE =
if you have a predicate that selects the appropriate ids.=