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Knut Anders Hatlen commented on DERBY-3155:
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This may be intentional, but I thought I'd raise the issue so that we can 
clarify whether or not it's supposed to be supported. Merge with self doesn't 
seem to be accepted:

{noformat}
ij> create table t(x int, y int);
0 rows inserted/updated/deleted
ij> merge into t a using t b on a.x=b.x when matched then update set a.y=b.y;
ERROR 42X09: The table or alias name 'T' is used more than once in the FROM 
list.
{noformat}

> Support for SQL:2003 MERGE statement
> ------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: DERBY-3155
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-3155
>             Project: Derby
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: SQL
>            Reporter: Trejkaz
>            Assignee: Rick Hillegas
>              Labels: derby_triage10_10
>         Attachments: MergeStatement.html, MergeStatement.html, 
> MergeStatement.html, derby-3155-01-ac-grammar.diff, 
> derby-3155-02-ag-fixParserWarning.diff, 
> derby-3155-03-ae-backingStoreHashtableWithRowLocation.diff, 
> derby-3155-03-af-backingStoreHashtableWithRowLocation.diff, 
> derby-3155-03-ag-backingStoreHashtableWithRowLocation.diff, 
> derby-3155-03-ah-backingStoreHashtableWithRowLocation.diff, 
> derby-3155-04-ae-deleteAction.diff, derby-3155-04-af-deleteAction.diff, 
> derby-3155-05-aa-triggerTransitionTableAsTarget.diff, 
> derby-3155-06-aa-triggerTransitionTableAsSource.diff, 
> derby-3155-07-ad-insertAction.diff, derby-3155-08-ah-updateAction.diff, 
> derby-3155-09-aa-correlationNames.diff, 
> derby-3155-10-aa-correlationNames.diff, 
> derby-3155-11-ab-beforeTriggersCantFireMerge.diff, 
> derby-3155-12-aa-canOmitInsertColumnList.diff, 
> derby-3155-13-aa-allowSystemAndTempTables.diff, 
> derby-3155-14-aa-replaceCorrelationNamesOnLeftSideOfSETclauses.diff, 
> derby-3155-15-aa-replumbMergeResultSetCleanup.diff
>
>
> A relatively common piece of logic in a database application is to check for 
> a row's existence and then either update or insert depending on its existence.
> SQL:2003 added a MERGE statement to perform this operation.  It looks like 
> this:
>     MERGE INTO table_name USING table_name ON (condition)
>     WHEN MATCHED THEN UPDATE SET column1 = value1 [, column2 = value2 ...]
>     WHEN NOT MATCHED THEN INSERT column1 [, column2 ...] VALUES (value1 [, 
> value2 ...]) 
> At the moment, the only workaround for this would be to write a stored 
> procedure to do the same operation, or to implement the logic client-side.



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