• Brandie Tarvin (2/1/2011)


    CELKO (1/31/2011)


    Actually, INSERT and UPDATE are single table operations, while MERGE requires a source and target.

    I haven't moved up to SQL 2k8 yet, so haven't had a chance to use MERGE. But that's good information to know that I didn't know before. Thanks for mentioning it.

    CELKO (1/31/2011)


    Successful projects start on lesser SQLs (even ACCESS ) then have to move to DB2, Oracle, Teradata or whatever.

    Including Access? What other lesser SQLs are there? I'm assuming you mean non-robust solutions, so I'm truly curious as Access (and maybe Lotus) is the only one I know for sure.

    Would FoxPro count?

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