could it be someone was cleaning up data and used a REPLACE without a WHERE statement?

the rowversion gets incrmeneted even thought here was no "real" change:

CREATE TABLE WHATEVER(

WHATEVERID INT IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,

DESCRIP VARCHAR(30),

MyRowVersion ROWVERSION

)

INSERT INTO WHATEVER(DESCRIP)

SELECT 'APPLES' UNION

SELECT 'ORANGES' UNION

SELECT 'BANANAS' UNION

SELECT 'GRAPES' UNION

SELECT 'CHERRIES' UNION

SELECT 'KIWI'

--affects ALL rows in the table, but no real change to data, but rowversion is modified.

update whatever set descrip = REPLACE(descrip,'SASQUATCH','')

--vs

--no matching rows, rowversion preserved.

update whatever set descrip = REPLACE(descrip,'SASQUATCH','') WHERE DESCRIP LIKE '%SASQUATCH%'