how to change the message text in management studio in query result

  • hi,

    I have two records...is having pid=10

    idpid

    10110

    10210

    1035

    1046

    1065

    then i executed the below query..

    update Child set pid=10 where id in (101,102)

    the sql server showing message like

    (2 row(s) affected) but as per data no records updated so i need to change this message type

    if i ran the above update query the the result should be like

    (0 row(s) affected)

    is there any way to change this...

  • Just add a filter to the update statement

    😎

    DECLARE @CHILD TABLE

    (

    ID INT NOT NULL

    ,PID INT NOT NULL

    );

    INSERT INTO @CHILD(ID,PID)

    SELECT CH.ID,CH.PID FROM

    (VALUES

    (101,10)

    ,(102,10)

    ,(103,5 )

    ,(104,6 )

    ,(106,5 )) AS CH(ID,PID)

    UPDATE @CHILD

    SET PID=10

    WHERE ID IN (101,102)

    AND PID <> 10;

    Output message

    (0 row(s) affected)

  • I agree with the suggestion to add a filter in the UPDATE statement if that is feasible.

    The thing is that although it looks like nothing has been updated, 2 records were physically updated - it's just that the before/after values were the same. Hence, I would not even think about changing the message. For all practical purposes, 2 records were updated and that would fire triggers, update rowversions and the like even though the data remains the same.

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  • Just a thought, how would you use the SSMS message? If you need the count of records affected you can use the output clause or simply either @@ROWCOUNT or ROWCOUNT_BIG()

    😎

    DECLARE @CHILD TABLE

    (

    ID INT NOT NULL

    ,PID INT NOT NULL

    );

    DECLARE @UPDATES TABLE

    (

    ID INT NOT NULL

    ,PID INT NOT NULL

    );

    INSERT INTO @CHILD(ID,PID)

    SELECT CH.ID,CH.PID FROM

    (VALUES

    (101,10)

    ,(102,9)

    ,(103,5 )

    ,(104,6 )

    ,(106,5 )) AS CH(ID,PID)

    UPDATE @CHILD

    SET PID=10

    OUTPUT INSERTED.ID,INSERTED.PID INTO @UPDATES

    WHERE ID IN (101,102)

    AND PID <> 10;

    SELECT COUNT(*) FROM @UPDATES;

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