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Updatable VIEWs

Insert, update and delete through some views.

Updatable VIEW

Simple VIEWs allow INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE through them.

UPDATE active_customers SET status = 'vip' WHERE id = 1;

This query updates customer status through the VIEW.

In active_customers, status = 'vip' is updated. Only the rows where id = 1 holds are affected.

Updatable VIEW — details

Updatable VIEWs must be simple: no JOIN, GROUP BY or DISTINCT.

For example, in a single-table view like active_customers, UPDATE … SET status = 'vip' updates the customers table directly.

Practice Updatable VIEW

Set status to 'vip' for id=1 through the active_customers VIEW.

Starter code

query.sql
-- update view
UPDATE active_customers

Sample solution

query.sql
UPDATE active_customers SET status = 'vip' WHERE id = 1;

Expected output

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Questions and answers

Review the lesson questions together with their answers. To test yourself, solve the lesson interactively.

1 Add UPDATE

Question 
____ active_customers SET status = 'vip' WHERE id = 1;
Answer 
UPDATE active_customers SET status = 'vip' WHERE id = 1;

Explanation: Simple single-table views can be updated with UPDATE; the change is written to the underlying table.

2 Updatable VIEWs: match the terms

Term Meaning
UPDATE update
VIEW virtual
simple updatable
JOIN forbidden

3 Which VIEWs are updatable?

  • Ones with GROUP BY
  • Simple ones Correct answer
  • Ones with JOIN
  • Everyone

Explanation: Simple VIEWs are updatable.

All lessons in Intermediate

1 INNER JOIN in depth

  1. INNER JOIN logic
  2. Choosing the join column
  3. Three-table INNER JOIN
  4. Self JOIN
  5. Filtering joins
  6. Summary - INNER JOIN

2 LEFT and RIGHT JOIN

  1. LEFT JOIN
  2. RIGHT JOIN
  3. Unmatched rows
  4. JOINs with NULL
  5. LEFT vs RIGHT
  6. Summary - LEFT and RIGHT JOIN

3 FULL and CROSS JOIN

  1. FULL OUTER JOIN
  2. CROSS JOIN
  3. When to CROSS JOIN
  4. Comma JOIN
  5. Choosing a JOIN type
  6. Summary - FULL and CROSS JOIN

4 Project: Library database

  1. Library design
  2. Books and authors
  3. List loans with LEFT JOIN
  4. Find overdue loans
  5. Member summary

5 GROUP BY

  1. What is GROUP BY?
  2. Single-column grouping
  3. Multi-column grouping
  4. GROUP BY with aggregates
  5. Ordering grouped results
  6. Summary - GROUP BY

6 HAVING

  1. What is HAVING?
  2. HAVING vs WHERE
  3. HAVING with aggregates
  4. Multiple conditions
  5. HAVING with aliases
  6. Summary - HAVING

7 Aggregate functions

  1. COUNT
  2. SUM
  3. AVG
  4. MIN and MAX
  5. NULL and aggregates
  6. Summary - Aggregates

8 Project: Sales report

  1. Sales design
  2. Daily revenue
  3. Best sellers
  4. Customer segments
  5. Low performers

9 Subquery

  1. What is a subquery?
  2. Scalar subquery
  3. Subquery with IN
  4. ANY and ALL
  5. Correlated subquery
  6. Summary - Subquery

10 EXISTS

  1. What is EXISTS?
  2. NOT EXISTS
  3. EXISTS vs IN
  4. EXISTS performance
  5. Multiple EXISTS
  6. Summary - EXISTS

11 UNION and INTERSECT

  1. UNION
  2. UNION ALL
  3. INTERSECT
  4. EXCEPT
  5. Set rules
  6. Summary - UNION and INTERSECT

12 CASE

  1. What is CASE?
  2. Searched CASE
  3. Simple CASE
  4. The ELSE branch
  5. CASE with aggregates
  6. Summary - CASE

13 VIEW

  1. What is a VIEW?
  2. CREATE VIEW
  3. Querying a VIEW
  4. DROP VIEW
  5. Updatable VIEWs
  6. Summary - VIEW

14 INDEX basics

  1. What is an INDEX?
  2. CREATE INDEX
  3. Composite INDEX
  4. DROP INDEX
  5. When to index
  6. Summary - INDEX

15 Project: Blog database

  1. Blog design
  2. Post list
  3. Tag search
  4. Author stats
  5. Search index

16 Normalization

  1. What is normalization?
  2. First normal form
  3. Second normal form
  4. Third normal form
  5. BCNF
  6. Summary - Normalization

17 Data integrity

  1. What is integrity?
  2. Entity integrity
  3. Referential integrity
  4. Domain integrity
  5. Integrity with triggers
  6. Summary - Data integrity

18 Transaction basics

  1. What is a transaction?
  2. BEGIN and COMMIT
  3. ROLLBACK
  4. SAVEPOINT
  5. ACID
  6. Summary - Transaction

19 ALTER and DROP

  1. ALTER TABLE
  2. Adding a column
  3. Dropping a column
  4. Changing a column type
  5. DROP TABLE
  6. Summary - ALTER and DROP

20 Intermediate final

  1. Multi-JOIN report
  2. Aggregate analysis
  3. Subquery challenge
  4. Transaction scenario