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Subquery returned more than 1 value. Error on Update SQL

Hi guys,

I am just trying to do a simple update statement and am getting this error

Subquery returned more than 1 value. This is not permitted when the subquery follows =, !=, <, <= , >, >= or when the subquery is used as an expression.
The statement has been terminated.

My statment is like this:
Code:
update [Clients]
SET [OPT-OUT] = 0 WHERE [OPT-OUT] is null

I have used this against another table with success, but get the error against that one. Anyone have any idea?

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that is so totally weird

there's no subquery!!
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Yeah that is what I thought. It does not make a whole lot of sense to me. Has anyone seen this before?

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what happens if you rename the column so that it doesn't require square brackets?

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I really do not know. Unfortunatly I am unable to change the field name, as it is generated from an external program. We have another table with the same field in it and it works fine reading
Code:
 
update [Personnel]
SET [OPT-OUT] = 0 WHERE [OPT-OUT] is null

which is why I am completey dumbfounded

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