Learn what the SQL MERGE statement is, how it works, and how to use it to synchronize two tables by inserting, updating, and deleting data. Skip to main content LinkedIn. Articles ...

/*Select the rows/columns to insert that are output from this merge statement the rows to be inserted are the rows that have changed (UPDATE). */ ( /* This is the beginning of the merge statement. The ...

Description In SQL Server, we can omit ";" for SELECT, UPDATE, INSERT or DELETE statement, but it looks we cannot omit ";" in MERGE statement. SQL Server MERGE statement needs an explicit ...