Question

I have a database in which some editing operations have to be done manually on some rows. I have the SQL Server Management Studio Express. In SSMS, to edit the rows, normally the option is:

Select DB > Table > Right Click > Edit top 200 rows

But, the problem here is that I only have to edit some selected rows. I am able to retrieve these selected rows by the following query:

/****** Script for SelectTopNRows command from SSMS  ******/
SELECT *
  FROM [test].[dbo].[Sheet1] WHERE Item1 IS NULL OR Item2 IS NULL

Now, I have to perform some edit operations (moving some data from some columns to others) which can’t be performed with a query because of no single observable pattern for editting. So, the question remains, how can I get these rows in edit mode to do my task?

Answer 1

Click edit rows on the table and then open the sql tab of that query and add your predicate there. And that’s how you can edit filtered records.