• Orlando Colamatteo (1/30/2016)


    TheSQLGuru (1/30/2016)


    Such a shame too. But it wasn't fully baked when it was released and it has never gotten the attention it needed/deserved from the product team.

    I could not agree more. The only place I use MERGE is in place of the proprietary UPDATE...JOIN or DELETE...JOIN statements to add protection from error 8672.

    I use UPDATE ... JOIN or DELETE ... JOIN and make very sure that I check what I'm getting back and that I have 1..1 matches to the tables being deleted/updated/

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