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On 9/18/20 11:13 AM, Jonathan Strong wrote:
@Adrian -

Using a unique key value or otherwise isolating a specific record via selection against values in its attributes is certainly preferable to choosing a row to update via its position in a result set, unless the use case actually makes use of that position info as a meaningful descriptor of the data in some fashion.


The bigger issue is deciding what attribute of the selected row is be used to do the UPDATE. Unless it is the PRIMARY KEY(or other UNIQUE key(s)) then you very likely are going to UPDATE more then you bargained for.


- Jon

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