Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 06/29/07 21:29

(paulmac106@gmail.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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