似乎你正在使用MSSQL，然后，如果我没记错，它是这样做的:

UPDATE [Sales_Lead].[dbo].[Sales_Import] SET [AccountNumber] = 
RetrieveAccountNumber.AccountNumber 
FROM RetrieveAccountNumber 
WHERE [Sales_Lead].[dbo].[Sales_Import].LeadID = RetrieveAccountNumber.LeadID

我对foo也有同样的问题。对于在bar中没有匹配键的foo行，New被设置为null。我在Oracle做了类似的事情:

update foo
set    foo.new = (select bar.new
                  from bar 
                  where foo.key = bar.key)
where exists (select 1
              from bar
              where foo.key = bar.key)

对于SQL Server 2008 +使用MERGE而不是专有的更新…FROM语法有一些吸引力。

它不仅是标准SQL，因此更易于移植，而且在源端有多个连接行的情况下(因此在更新中可能使用多个不同的值)也会引发错误，而不是最终结果不确定。

MERGE INTO Sales_Import
   USING RetrieveAccountNumber
      ON Sales_Import.LeadID = RetrieveAccountNumber.LeadID
WHEN MATCHED THEN
   UPDATE 
      SET AccountNumber = RetrieveAccountNumber.AccountNumber;

然而，不幸的是，选择使用哪一种可能并不完全取决于首选的风格。SQL Server中MERGE的实现一直受到各种错误的困扰。Aaron Bertrand在这里整理了一份报告的清单。

甲骨文

use

UPDATE suppliers
SET supplier_name = (SELECT customers.customer_name
                     FROM customers
                     WHERE customers.customer_id = suppliers.supplier_id)
WHERE EXISTS (SELECT customers.customer_name
              FROM customers
              WHERE customers.customer_id = suppliers.supplier_id);

总结其他答案，关于如何仅在“匹配存在”时使用来自另一个表的数据更新目标表，有4种变体

查询和子查询:

update si
set    si.AccountNumber = (
    select ran.AccountNumber 
    from   RetrieveAccountNumber ran
    where  si.LeadID = ran.LeadID
)
from Sales_Import si
where exists (select * from RetrieveAccountNumber ran where ran.LeadID = si.LeadID)

内连接:

update si
set si.AccountNumber = ran.AccountNumber
from Sales_Import si inner join RetrieveAccountNumber ran on si.LeadID = ran.LeadID

交叉连接:

update si
set si.AccountNumber = ran.AccountNumber
from Sales_Import si, RetrieveAccountNumber ran
where si.LeadID = ran.LeadID

走：

merge into Sales_Import si
using RetrieveAccountNumber ran on si.LeadID = ran.LeadID 
when matched then update set si.accountnumber = ran.accountnumber;

所有的变体都是更少的琐碎和可以理解的，我个人更喜欢“内部连接”选项。但其中任何一种都可以使用，开发者必须根据自己的需求选择“更好的选项”

从性能的角度来看，使用join的变体更可取:

试试这个:

UPDATE
    Table_A
SET
    Table_A.AccountNumber = Table_B.AccountNumber ,
FROM
    dbo.Sales_Import AS Table_A
    INNER JOIN dbo.RetrieveAccountNumber AS Table_B
        ON Table_A.LeadID = Table_B.LeadID 
WHERE
    Table_A.LeadID = Table_B.LeadID