John Mitchell-245523 (2/8/2012)
Yes, but the point is that with UPDATE...FROM, you'll never know about it.John
At least until the users start screaming that their data is wrong. 😛
If you use the ANSI syntax, you'll get an error message.
I didn't think about the subquery returning more than 1 row error because the logic flaw was so glaringly obvious but of course the example is a simple one.
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