• Try this one , It might help ;

    Merge into desttable as target

    using

    (

    select col1, col2,col3,col4,col5 from sourcetable

    except

    select col1, col2,col3,col4,col5 from desttable

    ) as source

    on target.col1=source.col1 -- (use primary key )

    when matched then

    update set target.col1=source.col1,

    .......

    when not matched bye target then insert

    (col1,col2,col3,col4,col5) values (source.col1,.....)

    merge statement to update or insert or delete the records.

    ~ demonfox
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    Wondering what I would do next , when I am done with this one :ermm: