Update just one field from backup

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Published on 2010-04-27T19:07:23Z Indexed on 2010/04/27 21:53 UTC
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I'm looking to restore one field from a backup and can't find the syntax for an update statement that can look at 2 different catalogs.

Seems like it should be something fairly close to:

update users set idUserCompany = 
   (select idUserCompany from .myBackup.dbo.users uT) 
where uT.idUser = idUser

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