Du kan bara inte.
Enligt MySQL-dokument för UPPDATERING :
For the multiple-table syntax, UPDATE updates rows in each table named in
table_references that satisfy the conditions. In this case, ORDER BY and LIMIT
cannot be used.
UPPDATERING 1
UPDATE table1 a
INNER JOIN
(
SELECT id
FROM table1 A
INNER JOIN table2 B
ON A.type = B.typeName
WHERE A.status IN ('Finished', 'Exception', 'Query') AND
A.date BETWEEN '2013-01-01' AND '2013-01-31' AND
A.code IN ('ex1','ex2','ex3') AND
A.closed = 0 AND
B.order = 'Non-Order' AND
A.userName = 'test'
LIMIT 3
) tmp ON a.ID = tmp.ID
SET a.closed = 1,
a.sample = 1