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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 ...

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 ...

We have two MS SQL Server 2000 machines engaged in merge replication. One is in Houston, the other in Norway. The links are relatively high-bandwidth (6 Meg), but latency hovers in the 150-200ms range ...

Ahead of Microsoft Build (and a possible SQL Server announcement), let's break down what we know and speculate about what we don't. One topic that has come up in several conversations with customers ...