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I need to try and identify cases where non deterministic updates are occurring in our database (i.e we are updating a value in table A where there are multiple matches in table B). It appears that SQL Server does not throw an error or warning in such a case and performs a non deterministic update.



Does anyone know if there is an easy way of identifying where these issues are occurring, querying plan cache etc?. Doing a full code review to identify these issues will be time consuming given the size and complexity of the application.



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    I need to try and identify cases where non deterministic updates are occurring in our database (i.e we are updating a value in table A where there are multiple matches in table B). It appears that SQL Server does not throw an error or warning in such a case and performs a non deterministic update.



    Does anyone know if there is an easy way of identifying where these issues are occurring, querying plan cache etc?. Doing a full code review to identify these issues will be time consuming given the size and complexity of the application.



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      I need to try and identify cases where non deterministic updates are occurring in our database (i.e we are updating a value in table A where there are multiple matches in table B). It appears that SQL Server does not throw an error or warning in such a case and performs a non deterministic update.



      Does anyone know if there is an easy way of identifying where these issues are occurring, querying plan cache etc?. Doing a full code review to identify these issues will be time consuming given the size and complexity of the application.



      Tested on SQL Server 20082017 developer editions.










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      I need to try and identify cases where non deterministic updates are occurring in our database (i.e we are updating a value in table A where there are multiple matches in table B). It appears that SQL Server does not throw an error or warning in such a case and performs a non deterministic update.



      Does anyone know if there is an easy way of identifying where these issues are occurring, querying plan cache etc?. Doing a full code review to identify these issues will be time consuming given the size and complexity of the application.



      Tested on SQL Server 20082017 developer editions.







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