How to update one table from another

Question

I am creating scripts in Oracle 10g. I have a table that has data corruption on three date fields.
I created a table with the following sql of all the affected rows:
CREATE TABLE LSU_INTER_FIX_DATE AS
select request_id,received_date,planned_start_date, actual_start_date
from lsu_inter2_requests_t
where received_date < to_date('01-JAN-1900')
OR planned_start_date < to_date('01-JAN-1900')
OR actual_start_date < to_date('01-JAN-1900')
I then repaired all of the rows with three data fixes
UPDATE LSU_INTER_FIX_DATE
SET received_date = TO_CHAR(received_date,'YY-MON') ||'-'||(TO_CHAR(received_date,'RRRR') + 2000)
where received_date < to_date('01-JAN-1900')
UPDATE LSU_INTER_FIX_DATE
SET planned_start_date = TO_CHAR(planned_start_date,'YY-MON') ||'-'||(TO_CHAR(planned_start_date,'RRRR') + 2000)
where planned_start_date < to_date('01-JAN-1900')
UPDATE LSU_INTER_FIX_DATE
SET actual_start_date = TO_CHAR(actual_start_date,'YY-MON') ||'-'||(TO_CHAR(actual_start_date,'RRRR') + 2000)
where actual_start_date < to_date('01-JAN-1900')
I now want to update the original base table with the corrected data so I wrote the following SQL UPDATE command:
UPDATE lsu_inter2_requests_t aaa
SET aaa.received_date = bbb.received_date
FROM LSU_INTER_FIX_DATE bbb WHERE aaa.request_id = bbb.request_id
When I run this sql Oracle returns the error “ORA-00933 SQL command not properly ended.” How do I update multiple rows in one table from another table that share the same primary key?

Answer 1

Comet wrote:
I am creating scripts in Oracle 10g. I have a table that has data corruption on three date fields.
I created a table with the following sql of all the affected rows:
CREATE TABLE LSU_INTER_FIX_DATE AS
select request_id,received_date,planned_start_date, actual_start_date
from lsu_inter2_requests_t
where received_date < to_date('01-JAN-1900')
OR planned_start_date < to_date('01-JAN-1900')
OR actual_start_date < to_date('01-JAN-1900')
I then repaired all of the rows with three data fixes
UPDATE LSU_INTER_FIX_DATE
SET received_date = TO_CHAR(received_date,'YY-MON') ||'-'||(TO_CHAR(received_date,'RRRR') + 2000)
where received_date < to_date('01-JAN-1900')
UPDATE LSU_INTER_FIX_DATE
SET planned_start_date = TO_CHAR(planned_start_date,'YY-MON') ||'-'||(TO_CHAR(planned_start_date,'RRRR') + 2000)
where planned_start_date < to_date('01-JAN-1900')
UPDATE LSU_INTER_FIX_DATE
SET actual_start_date = TO_CHAR(actual_start_date,'YY-MON') ||'-'||(TO_CHAR(actual_start_date,'RRRR') + 2000)
where actual_start_date < to_date('01-JAN-1900')
I now want to update the original base table with the corrected data so I wrote the following SQL UPDATE command:
UPDATE lsu_inter2_requests_t aaa
SET aaa.received_date = bbb.received_date
FROM LSU_INTER_FIX_DATE bbb WHERE aaa.request_id = bbb.request_id
When I run this sql Oracle returns the error “ORA-00933 SQL command not properly ended.” How do I update multiple rows in one table from another table that share the same primary key?I am not convinced you have what you think you have
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UPDATE LSU_INTER_FIX_DATE
SET received_date = TO_CHAR(received_date,'YY-MON') ||'-'||(TO_CHAR(received_date,'RRRR') + 2000)
where received_date < to_date('01-JAN-1900')
When you want to produce a DATE datatype when starting with a string,
you must use TO_DATE() on the SET line!
(TO_CHAR(received_date,'RRRR') + 2000)since when do you do add characters (from TO_CHAR) with a constant number (2000)?
You should NEVER EVER rely on implicit datatype conversion
Edited by: sb92075 on Jul 27, 2011 7:09 PM