Hi,

I am using Sybase v11.x.  I am trying to copy from one
column to another column in a stored procedure as follows:

UPDATE tbl1
SET column1 = (select column2 from tbl2 where @variable =
variable)
WHERE @parameter = parameter

Everything is declared approriately.

The problem seems to be the datatypes TEXT for both column1
and column2, the error I get is:
"The ONCE AGGREGATE operation cannot take a TEXT datatype as
an argument."

I cannot covert these to other data types and they will
always be longer than 255 characters.

Does anyone know a way I can get around this? (apart from
using version 12.x where I can convert/cast and > 255
characters)

Thanks!

Seems the fact of encapsulating the subquery in brackets I am creating a local variable which is a TEXT datatype and not allowed in this case.

Instead I:

UPDATE tbl1
SET tbl1.col1 = tbl2.col1 from tbl2
WHERE @param = tbl1.col2 and @param = tbl2.col2

Cheers