UPDATE with ORDER BY and LIMIT not working in MYSQL

Question

I am new to MYSQL, and unable to resolve or even with so many answers on this forum, unable to identiy the error in this statement. I am using MYSQL database.

I have

Answer 1

Usually you can use LIMIT and ORDER in your UPDATE statements, but in your case not, as written in the MySQL Documentation 12.2.10. UPDATE Syntax:

For the multiple-table syntax, UPDATE updates rows in each table named in table_references that satisfy the conditions. In this case, ORDER BY and LIMIT cannot be used.

Try the following:

UPDATE Ratemaster
SET Ratemaster.Rate =
(
    SELECT Rates.Rate
    FROM Rates
    WHERE Ratemaster.user = Rates.user
    ORDER BY Rates.id
    LIMIT 1
)