>>Hi everybody,
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>>I know, I should create a test case and try it before asking the questions, but I was wondering how the following works.
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>>Say you get a cursor from a table, using SPT. Then you update some records of the cursor. Then you want to update the table with the changes. Can it be done without a stored procedure? That is, if I send to SQL Server (using SPT) an update string as following:
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>>update mytable from mytable join c_mytable on c_mytable.pk = mytable.pk set myfield1 = c_mytable.myfield1
>>where (cSomeExpr)
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>>My instinct tells me that since SQL Server does not know anything about the cursor c_mytable, the above will fail. Correct?
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>It would not work in SQL Server, correct. One way would be to translate each update as a separate line and use a batch.
Thank you.
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