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update statement with self join

I needed to copy information from one row of a table to another. I noticed I could do the following: update address set col1 = a2.col1, col2 = a2.col2, .....etc from address a1, address a2 where ...
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Oracle: Non key-preserved table should be

I'm getting "ORA-01779: cannot modify a column which maps to a non key-preserved table" when I try to update a join. I've searched around the site and found a lot of advice on what key-preserved ...
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Which update is faster using join or sequential?

My this question is in sequence of my previous question I asked. I could write two solutions using Stored Procedure instead of trigger or nested-query . Both use a helper function ...
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Update ranking on table

I have two tables: mysql> desc rank ; +----------------+-------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | ...