You can update one or more rows of a table through a view, with some restrictions. See Updating PROC SQL and SAS/ACCESS Views ... use the ALTER TABLE statement, described in ALTER TABLE Statement. In ...

Returns a Boolean value that indicates whether an INSERT or UPDATE attempt was made on a specified column of a table or view. UPDATE() is used anywhere inside the body of a [!INCLUDEtsql] INSERT or ...

I'm trying to assign rows in a table to a random variable entirely in Transact SQL (This is MS SQL Server 2000, sp3). I've got it working perfectly except I can't use a variable inside my subquery ...