Example: UPDATE With a Subquery in its WHERE Clause - Teradata Vantage - Analytics Database

SQL Data Manipulation Language

Deployment
VantageCloud
VantageCore
Edition
VMware
Enterprise
IntelliFlex
Product
Analytics Database
Teradata Vantage
Release Number
17.20
Published
June 2022
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2025-04-02
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The following examples perform the same UPDATE operation using either a subquery join with a derived table or a simple equality join on column_1 in table_1 and table_2.

     UPDATE table_1
     SET column_1 = 1
     WHERE column_1 IN (SELECT column_2
                        FROM table_2);

     UPDATE table_1
     SET column_1 = 1
     WHERE table_1.column_1=table_2.column_1;