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Software ==>	SQL (202 exercises)
Topic ==>	Transactions (6 exercises)
Level ==>	Average difficulty
Subject ==>	SQL training

Update the number of Dr Who enemies within a transaction, and commit or roll this back

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Before you can do this exercise, you'll need to download and unzip this file .

First (if you haven't already done so) run the script shown above to generate the Doctor Who training database.

Type in and run the following script to generate a new column called NumberEnemies in the tblEpisode table:

ALTER TABLE tblEpisode

ADD NumberEnemies int

Write an update query which will set this column to equal the number of enemies for each episode (but within a transaction), then:

Roll back this transaction if more than 100 rows are affected (displaying a suitable message, as shown below); or
Commit it otherwise and show a list of all of the episodes, including the newly populated field.

Use @@RowCount to see how many rows are affected, but don't forget to store this in a variable immediately after running the update so that its value doesn't get overwritten.

Note that the syntax of the update query is nasty:

-- set the number of enemies for each episode

UPDATE

tblEpisode

SET

NumberEnemies = (

SELECT

COUNT(*)

FROM

tblEpisodeEnemy AS ee

WHERE

ee.EpisodeId = e.EpisodeId