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 2 tables: Ratemaster and rates, in which a customer can have 1 product with different rates. Because of this, there is a duplication of customer and product fields, only the rate field changes. Now Table Ratemaster has all the fields : id, Customer code, Product, Rate, user whereas Table Rates has only: id, cust code, Rate, user. - user field is for checking session_user.
Now Table Ratemaster has 3 records with all field values being same except Rate field empty.
Table Rates has different rates.
I want to have all rates to be updated in Ratemaster from Rates table. I am unable to do this with UPDATE
and LIMIT
mysql command, it is giving error as:
Incorrect usage of UPDATE and LIMIT
UPDATE Ratemaster, Rates
SET Ratemaster.Rate=Rates.Rate
WHERE Ratemaster.user=Rates.user
LIMIT 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
)