SQL Server updating a time stamp column

Question

In my database I have a timestamp column. I need to update a row in the table and need to update the timestamp column. When I run an update command

Answer 1

timestamp column cannot be updated since it is server generated and is gauranteed to be unique for the entire database - if updates were allowed, which it is not, then the value is not gauranteed to be unique.

i faced same problem trying to update the timestamp column in a replicated instance because the replicated instance did not have the same timestamp value as the publisher - which caused some problems when trying to obtain the last updated record per group of records. of course, with replication, it was a simple configurationg at the publisher to enable the same timestamp value to replicate over to the subscriber.

otherwise, there is no other way to update a timestamp value.