On 10/01/2013 10:16 AM, Perry Smith wrote:
With "make" I can do "make -n" and it just tells me what it would do but doesn't actually do anything. How could I do that with SQL? I want to write a really complicated (for me) SQL UPDATE statement. I'm sure I won't get it right the first time. Is there an easy way to not really make the changes? I've thought about starting a transaction and then roll it back. That would undo the changes. But I won't be able to tell what the changes were.
Assuming you are not doing this in a function, you can. Do UPDATE, then SELECT to see your changes or not and then ROLLBACK.
Thank you for your time, Perry
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