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Posted by: Chris Proctor
Programmer Analyst
Columbia Sports Company
Portland, OR
UPDATE number of rows in a stored procedure?
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Published: 27 Sep 2011
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UPDATE number of rows in a stored procedure? Published by: Chris Proctor on 27 Sep 2011 view comments(1)

In a stored procedure I need to update 100 rows in a file with a batch number if the batch number is currently 0. It doesn't look like having "fetch 100 rows only" is valid on an UPDATE statement, so is there another way that I can accomplish the same thing?

Here's what my statement currently looks like:

UPDATE cscedipoh              
SET    ehbtch = v_batch_number
where  ehbtch = 0             
FETCH  first 100 rows only;   

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

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Posted by: DaleB
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Comment on: UPDATE number of rows in a stored procedure?
Posted: 12 years 6 months 30 days 19 hours 46 minutes ago

Just off the cuff, sounds like you need to use a cursor in a loop and update where current of the cursor. Either the cursor has the "for 100 rows," or use a variable that you increment as you do the fetches, and leave the loop after the 100th iteration. Either way you'll need to test for no row retrieved by the fetch and quit the loop (i.e., end-of-file).