Oracle Update

by Online Tutorials Library July 14, 2022

Oracle UPDATE Statement

In Oracle, UPDATE statement is used to update the existing records in a table. You can update a table in 2 ways.

Traditional Update table method

Syntax:

 UPDATE table SET column1 = expression1,     column2 = expression2,     …     column_n = expression_n WHERE conditions; 

Update Table by selecting rocords from another table

Syntax:

 UPDATE table1 SET column1 = (SELECT expression1                FROM table2                WHERE conditions) WHERE conditions;  

Parameters:

1) column1, column2, … column_n:

It specifies the columns that you want to update.

2) expression1, expression2, …expression_n:

This specifies the values to assign to the column1, column2, ?. column_n.

3) conditions:It specifies the conditions that must be fulfilled for execution of UPDATE stateme.

Oracle Update Example: (Update single column)

This example will update the supplier_name as “Kingfisher” where “supplier_id” is 2.

Oracle Update Example: (Update multiple columns)

The following example specifies how to update multiple columns in a table. In this example, two columns supplier_name and supplier_address is updated by a single statement.

 UPDATE suppliers SET supplier_address = ‘Agra’,     supplier_name = ‘Bata shoes’ WHERE supplier_id = 1; 

Output:

1 row(s) updated. 0.06 seconds

Oracle Update Example: (By selecting records from another table)

 UPDATE customers SET name = (SELECT supplier_name                  FROM suppliers                  WHERE suppliers.supplier_name = customers.name) WHERE age < 25; 

Output:

2 row(s) updated. 0.02 seconds

Here, the customers table is updated by fetching the data from “suppliers” table.

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