Bulk Record Update with SQL

Question

I have two tables in a SQL Server 2008 environment with the following structure

Table1
- ID
- DescriptionID
- Description

Table2
- ID
- Description
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Answer 1

You can do this through a regular UPDATE with a JOIN

UPDATE T1
SET Description = T2.Description
   FROM Table1 T1
      JOIN Table2 T2
         ON T2.ID = T1.DescriptionId