Seems like a good use for this, and order doesn't matter. How does this "not make sense"? Your query in that case would not look like the one in the accepted answer would it? You would need a where clause to avoid processing the same rows again and again.
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Featured on Meta. New post summary designs on greatest hits now, everywhere else eventually. Linked See more linked questions. Related Hot Network Questions. However, in the previous version of SSMS , the only option was to open the entire table. Let us see how to alter select top rows and edit top rows default value in SSMS. In the below example we have set the value as 50 for both options. Once you have made the above mentioned changes right click the table to see the changes as shown in the snippet below.
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NET Framework 2. As a developer there are times when yo need to convert seconds to minutes, hours and days. The main business table has one column I am updating. I cannot add any additional columns to the table or update any other columns. The temp table contains a key and a value and the main table is to be updated with this value.
I can do anything I want to this table. Due to how heavily hit the business table is, I've been asked to run the update statement in row chunks to minimize the possibilities of table locking. My problem is coming with a good way to track my progress. I can do the update statement on a rows with no problem, and I can create a column in my temp table to track what's been updated. My problem is, how can make absolutely sure that I properly check off the specific rows I just updated in the main table Jeff Moden.
They sure are making you jump through hoops.
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