• kapil_kk (4/19/2013)


    Sean Lange (4/19/2013)


    You can't do updates/insert/deletes in a function. You would need to make this a stored proc instead. Have you considered MERGE? I think you could probably turn this whole thing into a MERGE with OUTPUT.

    Actually this script I write to create a STNNo which will I used to insert in a column value with another stored procedure...

    How can I achieve this thing?

    The shortest path is to turn this into a proc instead of a function. There seems to be a lot of improvements you could make so this code flows a bit smoother.

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