Oracle SQL correlated update

Question

I got three tables:

t1.columns: a,c
t2.columns: a,b
t3.columns: b,c,d

Now what I want is to update t1.c with t3.d. But I can\'t just update t1

Answer 1

If there is a one-to-many relationship between t1 and t2 or between t2 and t3 you will get many matches for each row in t1. If you know that all rows in t3 that belong to the same row in t1 have the same value in d, then you can use DISTINCT to remove (identical) duplicates.

UPDATE table1 t1
   SET t1.c = (select DISTINCT t3.d
               from table2 t2, table3 t3
               where t2.b = t3.b and t1.a = t2.a)                                  
 WHERE EXISTS ( SELECT 1 FROM table2 t2, table3 t3 WHERE t1.c = t3.c and t1.a = t2.a);