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There are many strategies for this process that can be employed but Microsoft has given us the new MERGE statement which helps simplify things. Let’s take a look… One way of applying incremental ...

Before this week, my knowledge of SQL was essentially limited to "SELECT blah FROM blah JOIN blah ON blah WHERE blah". Now I'm being asked to do a little more, and while I think I'm getting up to ...

SQL Server, Microsoft's flagship operational database, has been around for over a quarter century now. That has meant successive waves of innovation for the platform, but has also made for ...

BANGALORE, INDIA: In SQL Server 2008, you can perform insert, update, or delete operations in a single statement using the MERGE statement. MERGE statement allows you to join a data source with a ...

It's not 2008 anymore. Joey details the ins and outs of upgrading these aging Microsoft servers, including licensing changes, support options and potential pitfalls. It was a simpler time. A decade ...

SQL Server 2008, aka “Katmai,” gives SQL Server shops plenty of reasons to get excited. The best SQL Server release to date, it sports more nice new features than you can count, and the improvements ...

Microsoft is offering users on Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 a way to keep getting security updates for free after the official support period ends. Read also: Here's ...