Yeah, I also tried with a 10g database (on Solaris this time) this morning, with identical results. At this point I strongly suspect that I'm seeing expected behaviour, but am still hoping to find something which documents the restriction and/or explains the underlying reason. Any suggestions for alternate methods of writing that sort of update statement are, of course, very welcome as well. Thanx for checking! :) On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 11:31, Sidney Chen <huanshengchen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > just test in 10.2.0.4, the update also failed using order by > i would guess it's the order by make the view unmodifiable, just a guess. > > from the note, it did not clarify the the order by clause will make a join > view unmodifiable > Updates on VIEWS Based On Joined Tables Fails With ORA-1779 ORA-1732 [ID > 1015219.4] > > > -- > Regards > Sidney Chen > > > -- "I'm too sexy for my code." -Awk Sed Fred -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l