Question

i am using below query to update my all records but it starts update from second row
how can i modify it to do changes from 1’st row ?

i am using mssql 2008

i think i can not use @@FETCH_STATUS as 1’st line as it is global.

thanks in advance

use vivdb

DECLARE @empno as int;
select @empno = 10;

DECLARE Employee_Cursor CURSOR FOR select * from emp
OPEN Employee_Cursor;

FETCH NEXT from Employee_Cursor

WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
   BEGIN

      update emp set empno = @empno;
      select @empno = @empno+1;

     FETCH NEXT from Employee_Cursor
   END;

CLOSE Employee_Cursor;
DEALLOCATE Employee_Cursor;
GO

Answer 1

It looks like you want to assign an incremented value to empno starting with 10.

You can use a CTE and row_number() to do that. No need for a cursor.

;with C as
(
  select empno,
         9 + row_number() over(order by (select 1)) as NewEmpNo
  from emp       
)
update C
set empno = NewEmpNo

You cursor version could look like this to do the same.

DECLARE @empno AS INT;
DECLARE @CurEmpNo AS INT;

SELECT @empno = 10;

DECLARE employee_cursor CURSOR FOR
  SELECT empno
  FROM   emp

OPEN employee_cursor;

FETCH NEXT FROM employee_cursor INTO @CurEmpNo

WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
  BEGIN
      UPDATE emp
      SET    empno = @empno
      WHERE  CURRENT OF employee_cursor;

      SELECT @empno = @empno + 1;

      FETCH NEXT FROM employee_cursor INTO @CurEmpNo
  END;

CLOSE employee_cursor;

DEALLOCATE employee_cursor;