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Asked: 2026-05-10T16:40:28+00:00

I’m trying to do a simple update. I’ve done this kind of thing thousands

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I’m trying to do a simple update. I’ve done this kind of thing thousands of times. 

update articles set department = 60 where type = 'Top Story'

Today I get a strange error.

Describe Error: Failed to retrieve execution plan: Subquery returned more than 1 value. This is not permitted when the subquery follows =, !=, <, <= , >, >= or when the subquery is used as an expression.

Warnings: —> W (1): The statement has been terminated. <—

1559 record(s) affected

There is no subquery in the update statement. What’s going on?

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  1. Most likely there is a trigger on the table, and the error is occurring in the trigger, not in your actual SQL statement.

    I would further bet that the trigger assumes the insert or delete special tables will only ever have a single row (which is in fact not the case in mass updates, like the one you’re executing), causing the problem.

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