here is my problem distilled down I need to be able to change the
title of a book associated with an author there are 2 tables "author"
and "books"

books is keyed to author author.au_id -> books.author_key

so I select with
SelectCommand="select * from [authors],[books] where au_id =
author_key"


then try to update with
UpdateCommand="UPDATE [books] SET [book_title] = ? WHERE [author_key]
= ?"
this doesn't can I do this? I tried
UpdateCommand="UPDATE [books] SET [book_title] = ? WHERE [author_key]
= @au_id"
didn't help








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