>>If you need to know how many rows were updated, you can do
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>>cSQLCommand = "update ...;
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>>select @@RowCOUNT as RowsUpdated;"
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>>Then your cursor will have a single row with the number of rows updated.
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>Do you mean to add the "@@RowCOUNT as RowsUpdated;" to my SQL update?
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>That is, would my SQL update command look like this:
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>cSqlUpdate = "update mytable set field1 = '1233' where id_field = 'ABC';select @@RowCOUNT as RowsUpdated"
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>I used a semi-colon to separate two statement. Is this correct?
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>UPDATE. I checked and it works. Thank you!

It was announced at some point that every command in T-SQL should end with semicolon. It works without also (to be backward compatible), but it's a good habit to start adding these semicolons when writing T-SQL code now.