The OUTPUT Clause for INSERT and DELETE Statements
In this article, I will provide a set of examples to show case the use of OUTPUT clause for INSERT and DELETE statements.
2026-01-02 (first published: 2017-05-25)
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Obsoleting Unused SSRS Reports
Learn about programmatically obsoleting unused SSRS reports from your Report Server.
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The OUTPUT Clause for the MERGE Statements
In this article, I will provide a set of examples to showcase the use of OUTPUT clause within the MERGE statement and how to capture the OUTPUT clause results into an archive table.
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The OUTPUT Clause for UPDATE Statements
In this article, I will provide a set of examples to showcase the use of OUTPUT clause in capturing the results of the updated rows into a table variable for the UPDATE statements.
2017-06-06
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