MS-SQL Query - Update record retrieved via Stored Procedure

Question

*UPDATE *

The scope has now developed slightly, and I now need to retreive the fields \'Id, uri, linkTo\'. How does this change things???

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Answer 1

There is a quirky update syntax that will let you assign the value to a variable at the same time as performing an update, but I'm not going to show it to you because it is undocumented, unsupported, and I can't guarantee that it will continue to work in future versions of SQL Server. Here is the method I would recommend (assuming Id is PK or at least unique):

DECLARE 
  @Id INT, 
  @uri VARCHAR(2048),
  @linkTo VARCHAR(2048);

SELECT TOP 1 @Id = Id, @uri = uri, @linkTo = linkTo
  FROM dbo.Adverts
  WHERE adRegion = @region
  ORDER BY NEWID();

UPDATE dbo.Adverts
  SET adShown = adShown + 1
  WHERE Id = @Id;

SELECT Id = @Id, uri = @uri, linkTo = @linkTo;