Question

I’ve got a table with two columns(among others): id and created_in_variant and a stored procedure that calculates the created_in_variant value basing on the id. I’d like to do something like this:

UPDATE [dbo].[alerts]      SET [created_in_variant] = find_root [id] 

Is there a nice way to do it?

Answer 1

You may want to look at using a scalar valued function (also known as a user defined function) instead of a stored procedure for this type of problem.

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