Question

Hey all, is there any SQL Server 2005 guru that can tell me a type of trick to get the values of what is being queried?

Ex:

 UPDATE l SET Inactive = 1 
 FROM tbl1 e JOIN tbl2 l ON l.CID = e.CID
     JOIN tbl3 p ON p.PID = e.PID
     JOIN tbl4 c ON c.PID = e.PID
     LEFT JOIN tbl5 g ON g.EID = e.ID 
         AND g.PID = e.PID
 WHERE e.PID = '315' 
 AND Inactive = 0 
 AND (e.Active = 0 OR g.ID IS NULL)

How can I get the values of, say, e.CID after this executes? I’ve already tried

 Print e.CID

But of course that does not work. Any other way to do that?

Thanks!

David

Answer 1

Try the OUTPUT clause:

UPDATE l 
SET Inactive = 1 
OUTPUT e.CID
FROM tbl1 e 
  JOIN tbl2 l ON l.CID = e.CID
  JOIN tbl3 p ON p.PID = e.PID
  JOIN tbl4 c ON c.PID = e.PID
  LEFT JOIN tbl5 g ON g.EID = e.ID AND g.PID = e.PID
WHERE e.PID = '315' 
AND Inactive = 0 
AND (e.Active = 0 OR g.ID IS NULL)

That should show the e.CID column for each row being updated as a result set from your UPDATE query.