Can anyone point me to a valid UPDATE statement in SPARQL in any documentation (be it W3C, virtuoso, semantic web page, or your own custom code, etc?
It has
In SPARQL updates are represented as a DELETE followed by an INSERT:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-sparql11-update-20100126/#t413
PREFIX foaf: WITH DELETE { ?person foaf:firstName 'Bill' } INSERT { ?person foaf:firstName 'William' } WHERE { ?person a foaf:Person . ?person foaf:firstName 'Bill' }