DatabaseServices.executeGenericUpdateStatement

Executes any kind SQL update statement - this can be UPDATE, INSERT, DELETE or a DDL statement CREATE, DROP, ALTER. For an INSERT statement the value of any auto-generated key is returned when a single record is inserted, for any other INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE statement the number of rows updated is returned, otherwise returns 0.

Example:

 var stmt = "update categories where id = '" 
    + fields.categoryId.value 
    + "' set description = '" 
    + fields.categoryDescription.value 
    + "'"; 
 services.database.executeGenericUpdateStatement("SAMPLES", stmt); 
 

returns int

Parameters

java.lang.String  databaseConnectionName,  java.lang.String  updateStatement,