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Asked: 2026-05-12T20:09:56+00:00

I am trying to update all records in a column so that they start

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I am trying to update all records in a column so that they start with ‘CD’ e.g. DCE206 would become CDE206. 

UPDATE table
SET column = REPLACE(column1, 'DC', 'CD')
WHERE column1 LIKE 'DC%'

I am using the above update statement however the following error appears

‘Subquery returned more than 1 value. This is not permitted when the subquery follows =, !=, <, <= , >, >= or when the subquery is used as an expression.’

Is there anything I can change in the statement to make this happen or do I need to look into using a cursor.

I am using SQL Server 2000.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can’t possibly be getting this error from that code. The error msut be from some other peice of code.

    Do you have anything than runs on update? A trigger?

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