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Microsoft® SQL Server 2008 R2 Unleashed
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Microsoft® SQL Server 2008 R2 Unleashed

by Ray Rankins, Paul Bertucci, Chris Gallelli, Alex T. Silverstein
September 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1704 pages
111h 8m
English
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MERGE Statement

In versions of SQL Server prior to SQL Server 2008, if you had a set of data rows in a source table that you wanted to synchronize with a target table, you had to perform at least three operations: one scan of the source table to find matching rows to update in the target table, another scan of the source table to find nonmatching rows to insert into the target table, and a third scan to find rows in the target table not contained in the source table that needed to be deleted. SQL Server 2008, however, introduces the MERGE statement. With the MERGE statement, you can synchronize two tables by inserting, updating, or deleting rows in one table based on differences found in the other table, all in just a single statement, minimizing ...

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