Article ID: 245631
Article Last Modified on 3/14/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q245631
BUG #: 56375 (SQLBUG_70)
SYMPTOMS
When you perform an UPDATE on a table and the FROM clause contains an inner join of that table and a SELECT DISTINCT from the same table, SQL Server returns the following error message:
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in SQL Server 7.0. This problem has been corrected in U.S. Service Pack 2 for Microsoft SQL Server 7.0. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
254561 INF: How to Obtain Service Pack 2 for Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 and Microsoft Data Engine (MSDE) 1.0
For more information, contact your primary support provider.
MORE INFORMATION
The following transact-SQL (T-SQL) code demonstrates this problem.
CREATE TABLE test (col1 INT)
GO
DECLARE @temp INT
UPDATE t
SET @temp = d.col1
FROM test t INNER JOIN ( SELECT DISTINCT col1 FROM test ) AS d
ON t.col1 = d.col1
GO
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