Question

There is an existing table in database where I want to update one column. If I right click on the table—>select edit 200 rows and try to edit the cell data it says that the cell is read-only. I am using SQL management studio 2008R2.
So I was trying to update it using an update Query but I am pretty new to the SQL queries and the whole database thing. Is this the proper way to pass an HTML tag in queries?

UPDATE OutputTemplate
  SET emailText='(<p>Thank you for your  gift of {Amount} to the {CommunityName}</p><br />Support & Charity Campaign.<br />
 --------------------------------------------
 ---          Transaction Detail          ---
 --------------------------------------------
 <span>Credit Card Details</span> 
 <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Personal Info Details & Amount</span>)'
 WHERE id='2'

It’s showing some parsing error, incorrect syntax while executing the query.

Sorry to ask such a basic question but I tried to google it, unfortunatelly nothing showed up useful.

Thanks

Answer 1

Remove the newlines from the query.

UPDATE OutputTemplate
SET emailText="<p>Thank you for your gift of {Amount} to the {CommunityName}</p><br />Support & Charity Campaign.<br />--------------------------------------------<br />--- Transaction Detail ---<br />--------------------------------------------<br /><span>Credit Card Details</span><br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Personal Info Details & Amount</span>"
WHERE id='2'