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Primary Key Required for Update Option but Primary Key Exists - SQL Server

ccagle
9 - Comet

Hi, 

 

This might be my lack of experience, but I'm getting the following error in Alteryx when trying to update records via the output tool (connecting to SQL server) - 

 

"Primary Key required for Update option"

 

The issue is that I have a primary key on the table I'm updating, and I'm sending the data in the same exact format (as the current table structure) back to the table to update (and in fact I initially created the table using Alteryx, and then added the primary key via a sql update statement on the server). 

 

I'm attaching two screenshots - one of the Alteryx error and the other of the table showing the primary key. Note that I dropped and recreated the primary key several times, and re-ran the workflow several times. Also note that I'm testing with only 2 records. It seems very strange that I get this error when there is a primary key on the table. Can anyone assist with this? 

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al_sweets
8 - Asteroid

@Leonari You can specify the schema in the output tool alongside your table name. E.g. [dbo].[Table]. That will force it to upload as dbo schema.

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