I haven't heard of MERGE being buggy. Do you have any online resources that discuss the matter ? Anyway about the performance improvement consider this scenario: You have two tables, a "parents" table and a "children" table where (as usual) a "paren...

Its a performance's matter. If you don't care about making 2 somewhat equivalent queries run in one transaction, you'd better have spare hardware resources....

Its a performance's matter. If you don't care about making 2 somewhat equivalent queries run in one transaction, you'd better have spare hardware resources....

There's no way to return a resultset and set variables using a single SELECT statement. But there's one way to do it using a MERGE statement. It's quite simple, you first declare a variable table which will be used to store some data. You then use a ME...

What if you want to find out if a specific field contains a certain value? For example you want to find out all employees who have 0 vacation hours and 0 sickhours. Common way is to write a where clause with 'or'. Another way to do this is to use 'i...

What if you want to find out if a specific field contains a certain value? For example you want to find out all employees who have 0 vacation hours and 0 sickhours. Common way is to write a where clause with 'or'. Another way to do this is to use 'i...

There's no way to return a resultset and set variables using a single SELECT statement. But there's one way to do it using a MERGE statement. It's quite simple, you first declare a variable table which will be used to store some data. You then use a ME...

There's no way to return a resultset and set variables using a single SELECT statement. But there's one way to do it using a MERGE statement. It's quite simple, you first declare a variable table which will be used to store some data. You then use a ME...

There's no way to return a resultset and set variables using a single SELECT statement. But there's one way to do it using a MERGE statement. It's quite simple, you first declare a variable table which will be used to store some data. You then use a ME...

From inside a content page you might want to alter the DOM tree when your master page layout prevents you to achieve a peculiar layout effect (for instance when doing a full-screen inline popup). But whenever you manipulate the DOM with javascript, be ...