Think what you want is something like:

UPDATE EMP SET SAL=3500
WHERE ENAME in (SELECT TOP 20 ENAME FROM EMP WHERE ENAME LIKE '%s%')


Daniel Morphett
DBA
Brilliant Digital Entertainment
02 9281 9272


-----Original Message-----
From: Biswaranjan Rath
[mailto:mssqldba-ezmlmshield-x16143881.[Email address protected]
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 3:35 PM
To: LazyDBA Discussion
Subject: Urgent: Regarding use of top


I have a SQL query like:

UPDATE EMP SET SAL=3500
WHERE ROWNUM <= 20 AND ENAME LIKE '%s%';

Can anybody help me out by giving suggestion about the equivalent
statement in T-SQL (SQL Server) ?


With best regards

Biswaranjan Rath
Subject Matter Expert
Amdocs DVCI, Pune, India
Phone : +91-20-4048951 Extn.: 302(Office)
+91-20-4062302 (Direct)












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