Question

I’m attempting to do an update on a table, which is read-only. I received an error message regarding the use of merge only. Most of the examples online of using merge with a select into, etc. though. I’m looking for the simplest update statement replacement – I don’t need to merge an entire table, etc.

update table1 set value = 'asdf' where id = 100`

Is the only way to use a merge in this case to create a temp table w/ my ‘asdf’ value and merge that into my target table?

Another solution might involve removing the read-only attribute for my transaction. I don’t know how to do this though.

Thank you in advance for any help!

Answer 1

I think your problem starts here:

I’m attempting to do an update on a table, which is read-only.

Whether it’s a replicated table or simply set as read only (which admins or admin-level users can set), you won’t be able to update the table.

You can select the data from that table into a another table and try your update there.

SELECT *
INTO TempTable1
FROM table1


update TempTable1 
set value = 'asdf' 
where id = 100`

You will need appropriate permissions to be able to manipulate (create, insert, update or delete) any object.