Re: @werdsmith
I always write a select statement first, then wrap the update in a transaction
Yes, BEGIN TRAN has saved my arse more times than I care to admit.
Though there was the time when someone (a friend, of course) forgot to COMMIT TRAN which left a lock on the database, and they didn't realise till alerts started coming in because the application servers couldn't do DB updates so weren't responding to requests. Oops!
Since then yours truly my friend always does a second COMMIT before closing the DB session in case the first one was forgotton...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
