Hi all:

Is there a way to tell if an UPDATE statement actually updates a record

when there's a WHERE clause being used?

For example:

UPDATE table1 ;

SET field1 = temp_value ;

WHERE field2 = search_value

If I execute this statement, the program continues on merrily whether or

not there was a matching record based upon the WHERE clause, which, I

suppose, is just fine. But, I'd really like to know the number of records

affected by the UPDATE statement.

Does UPDATE return a count? As in:

update_count = UPDATE table1....

That would certainly solve the issue, but I don't see this syntax being

supported in the Help file.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

Jon

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