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Oracle UPDATE followed by SELECT in LinqPad

I'm trying to UPDATE values in an Oracle database table (of salary information) that has no row IDs or a primary key. I'm writing these statements in LinqPad. This syntax should work just fine in ...
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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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Update field1.table1 based on compound join between table1 and table2 - Oracle

I want to run update statement on Oracle 11g, but it fails with the following error: SQL Error: ORA-01427: single-row subquery returns more than one row 01427. 00000 - "single-row subquery ...
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Would existing constraints and indexes applied to an old table, apply to a new table renamed like the old one after it's dropped?

everything is in the question. I have a table named tableA on which we have indexes and foreign keys and constraints. I have to modify content in a column called column1. This being a production ...
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Updating Multiple Rows with Data from Column A into Column B?

I have about 60,000 rows that I'm needing to update the information from column_a to column_b. For example, 60,000 customers need their arrival_time to match their departure_time. I understand that ...