If you have 2 apple ids, how do you sign out of one and into the other so you can update the app that was purchased in the other account.  thanks

If you purchased an app in one account and work mostly in another, how do you switch the purchased app account to update it?
thanks

You need to sign out and back in only if you're on your Mac and you want to update the iTunes data.  You'll see a notice saying that there are five (or so) updates but when you go to download them, they're not all present.  So you download them, sign out from one ID and sign back in with the other ID.  Then you can download the remaining ones.
If you're downloading directly to the iPad, everything is transparent.  It does not matter what ID is configured in Settings.  The iPad automatically chooses the correct ID or IDs when updates are available.

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