Question

I have a table such as:

PK_ID  LOCATION_ID     LOCATION_TEXT
 1          21           NULL
 2          44           NULL
 3          26           NULL

I have a function that returns the LOCATION_TEXT from the LOCATION_ID. I am trying to do something like:

update mytable 
set locationText = (select dbo.fcGetLocationText (LOCATION_ID) from mytable) 

I am getting the

Subquery returned more than 1 value

error, which I kind of understand, but I don’t know how else to do this… how can I update the LOCATION_TEXT column without a cursor or while loop?

Answer 1

Why not simply:

UPDATE mytable SET LOCATION_TEXT = dbo.fcGetLocationText(LOCATION_ID);

Also why are your column names yelling?