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ORA-01732: data manipulation operation not legal on this view

create table tq84_A (id number, txt varchar2(10));

insert into tq84_A
select
   level,
   dbms_random.string('a', 10)
from
   dual connect by level <= 20;
  
commit;
The following update statement runs ok …
update (
   select id
   from   tq84_A
)
set id = 1000 + id
where
   rownum <= 5;
-- --: ORA-01732: data manipulation operation not legal on this view -- … but this one ends in a ORA-01732: data manipulation operation not legal on this view error:
update (
   select   id
   from     tq84_A
   order by txt
)
set id = 1000 + id
where
   rownum <= 5;  
Cleaning up:
drop table tq84_A;

See also

ORA-01779: cannot modify a column which maps to a non key-preserved table
Other Oracle error messages

Index

Fatal error: Uncaught PDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 8 attempt to write a readonly database in /home/httpd/vhosts/renenyffenegger.ch/php/web-request-database.php:78 Stack trace: #0 /home/httpd/vhosts/renenyffenegger.ch/php/web-request-database.php(78): PDOStatement->execute(Array) #1 /home/httpd/vhosts/renenyffenegger.ch/php/web-request-database.php(30): insert_webrequest_('/notes/developm...', 1759446853, '216.73.216.42', 'Mozilla/5.0 App...', NULL) #2 /home/httpd/vhosts/renenyffenegger.ch/httpsdocs/notes/development/databases/Oracle/errors/ORA-01732_data-manipulation-operation-not-legal-on-this-view(72): insert_webrequest() #3 {main} thrown in /home/httpd/vhosts/renenyffenegger.ch/php/web-request-database.php on line 78