Oracle SQL: Update a table with data from another table

Question

Table 1:

id    name    desc
-----------------------
1     a       abc
2     b       def
3     c       adf

Table 2:

id    na         


        

Answer 1

Here seems to be an even better answer with 'in' clause that allows for multiple keys for the join:

update fp_active set STATE='E', 
   LAST_DATE_MAJ = sysdate where (client,code) in (select (client,code) from fp_detail
  where valid = 1) ...

The beef is in having the columns that you want to use as the key in parentheses in the where clause before 'in' and have the select statement with the same column names in parentheses. where (column1,column2) in ( select (column1,column2) from table where "the set I want" );