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dwalker79
Yak Posting Veteran

54 Posts

Posted - 2008-12-11 : 08:18:17

Can someone pleaes help me. I know why this statement is returning the error: "Subquery returned more than 1 value". I just need to know how to rewrite it so it works correctly.

Can anyone please help me with this?

Here is the statement:
update ##EmployeeAuctionSite_repl set ##EmployeeAuctionSite_repl.EmployeeID = (select Employee.EmployeeID from Employee where Employee.LegacyPersID = ##EmployeeAuctionSite_repl.LegacyPersID)

Thanks!!

soorajtnpki
Posting Yak Master

231 Posts

Posted - 2008-12-11 : 08:36:46

hi

just try this - use IN

update table set col='newvalue' where id IN (select Employee.EmployeeID from Employee where Employee.LegacyPersID = ##EmployeeAuctionSite_repl.LegacyPersID)

OK TANX

DonAtWork
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

2167 Posts

Posted - 2008-12-11 : 08:37:03

Fix your data. You have more than one employee in your Employee table that has the same LegacyPersID.

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SwePeso
Patron Saint of Lost Yaks

30421 Posts

Posted - 2008-12-11 : 08:54:33

Also use ANSI style if possible.

UPDATE		x
SET		x.EmployeeID = e.EmployeeID
FROM		##EmployeeAuctionSite_repl AS x
LEFT JOIN	Employee AS e ON e.LegacyPersID = x.LegacyPersID

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bjoerns
Posting Yak Master

154 Posts

Posted - 2008-12-11 : 09:01:08

Hi Peso,

UPDATE FROM is hardly ANSI-Standard

SwePeso
Patron Saint of Lost Yaks

30421 Posts

Posted - 2008-12-11 : 09:11:00

No, it is not standard, but it follows ANSI join style.

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