How to update a field of a table with some percentage of its value in SQL?

Question

Let suppose I have a table Employee, which have three field i.e EID , Salary, Dept

What I want to do is to increase the salary of every employee of Department 'Accounts' by 5%.

How this could be achieved in SQL Sever Query?

Kindly help me out!

Cheers

Answer 1

you can simply create an update statement with the right math. I would do something like this:

 update Employee set salary = (salary * 1.05) where Dept = 'Accounts'

Answer 2

update Mytable set Sal=1.05*sal where departmentId=xxx