>>After years, my 2 cents is that triggers are the best way to go, to build a custom log of who changed what and when.
Agreed- and those of us who have faced time-consuming "Why has your system got this wrong value?!" customer queries will understand exactly why! ;-)
For the rest, as a RVer I was unaware that SqlExec doesn't return a useful result for UPDATE - SQL. Live and Learn.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1