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Hi,

I need to update a field in about 20 records on a table. The table has
an update trigger (which updates the [lastedited] field whenever a
record is updated). As a result I'm getting an error: "Subquery
returned more than 1 value.", and the update fails.

Is there a way in the stored procedure to handle this issue?

thanks for your help.

Paul

Jun 29 '07 #1
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pa********@gmai l.com wrote:
Hi,

I need to update a field in about 20 records on a table. The table has
an update trigger (which updates the [lastedited] field whenever a
record is updated). As a result I'm getting an error: "Subquery
returned more than 1 value.", and the update fails.

Is there a way in the stored procedure to handle this issue?
That's not an issue - it's pure ignorance. Probably someone assumed,
that only one record can be updated at a time. Trigger logic (if the
trigger is causing this error) must be changed to handle true set-based
operations.

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Jun 29 '07 #2
(pa********@gma il.com) writes:
I need to update a field in about 20 records on a table. The table has
an update trigger (which updates the [lastedited] field whenever a
record is updated). As a result I'm getting an error: "Subquery
returned more than 1 value.", and the update fails.

Is there a way in the stored procedure to handle this issue?
If you are not able to correct the trigger, you will have to run a
cursor to updaet one row at a time. But obviously that should be a very
last resort.
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