Question

How do I formulate this query

update forge..dimInteg2
   set duplicates = 
      (select count(*) from (select idCover 
                                 from x90..dimCover
                                 group by idCover
                                 having count(*) > 1)) 
where dimTable = 'dimCover'

to avoid this error

Line 6: Incorrect syntax near ')'.

Similar to [SQL Server subquery syntax
but I can’t seem to get the alias trick to work.

I am on SQL Server 2000

Answer 1

Are you missing a bracket?

update forge..dimInteg2
set duplicates = 
  (select count(*) from (select idCover 
                             from x90..dimCover
                             group by idCover
                             having count(*) > 1) ) --HERE
where dimTable = 'dimCover'

Then the alias solution should work.