Update count column from data in another table

Question

In my DB I have two tables Items(Id, ..., ToatlViews int) and ItemViews (id, ItemId, Timestamp)

In ItemViews table I store all views of an item as they come to the site. From time to time I want to call a stored procedure to update Items.ToatlViews field. I tried to do this SP using a cursor ... but the update statement is wrong. Can you help me to correct it? Can I do this without cursor?

CREATE PROCEDURE UpdateItemsViews
AS
BEGIN
    -- SET NOCOUNT ON added to prevent extra result sets from
    -- interfering with SELECT statements.
    SET NOCOUNT ON;

    DECLARE @currentItemId int
    DECLARE @currentItemCursor CURSOR
    SET @currentItemCursor = CURSOR FOR SELECT Id FROM dbo.Items

    OPEN @currentItemCursor
    FETCH NEXT FROM @currentItemCursor INTO @currentItemId
    WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
    BEGIN
        Update dbo.Items set TotalViews = count(*) 
              from dbo.ItemViews where ItemId=@currentItemId
        FETCH NEXT FROM @currentItemCursor INTO @currentItemId
    END   
END
GO

Answer 1

You can use a direct UPDATE statement

update Items set TotalViews = 
     (select COUNT(id) from ItemViews where ItemViews.ItemId = Items.Id)

You might want to test performance for the various ways to do this, if that's important.