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UpdateDE()

UpdateDE is an AMPscript function in the data extensions category.

Syntax

UpdateDE(de, numKeys, keyCol, keyVal, ..., col, value, ...)

Example

%%[ UpdateDE("Loyalty", 1, "EmailAddress", emailaddr, "Tier", "Platinum") ]%%
New tier: %%=Lookup("Loyalty", "Tier", "EmailAddress", emailaddr)=%%
Rendered output
New tier: Platinum

Output produced by AmpSend's AMPscript engine (validated against Salesforce's own test corpus) - not a hand-written result.

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Official Salesforce documentation

UpdateDE in the official AMPscript reference - or browse the official index of AMPscript functions for platform behavior and edge cases.

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LookupLookupRowsLookupRowsCSLookupOrderedRowsLookupOrderedRowsCSDataExtensionRowCountRowCountRowFieldInsertDEInsertDataUpdateDataUpsertDEUpsertDataDeleteDEDeleteData