Is there a way to SELECT and UPDATE rows at the same time?

Question

I\'d like to update a set of rows based on a simple criteria and get the list of PKs that were changed. I thought I could just do something like this but am worried about po

Answer 1

Perhaps something more like this?

declare @UpdateTime datetime

set @UpdateTime = getutcdate()

update Table1 set AlertDate = @UpdateTime where AlertDate is null

select ID from Table1 where AlertDate = @UpdateTime