• Rod at work (5/2/2016)


    However in my testing I noticed that if I set it to what it already is, the UPDATE() function says I've modified it.

    The UPDATE function has nothing to do with whether a value has changed or not. It returns TRUE if the column was included in the UPDATE statement, FALSE if it wasn't.

    Gail Shaw
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