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Archive of posts filed under the SQL Server 2008 category.

Using the Merge Statement’s OUTPUT Clause to Match Inserted IDENTITY Fields with Source Table Fields

With this project I needed to insert data into table1 from table2 while simultaneously retrieving the identity field of table1, then insert that identity into table3 which mapped to table2 on a key that table1 did not have. The OUTPUT clause when used with the input statment would not facilitate this because it could not [...]

SQL Server Slow Performance

This pose deals with a random hanging that sometimes happens with SQL Server 2005+. In order to troubleshoot SQL Server Slowness, go here. The introduction of the new SQL Server 2005 Query Optimization engine has brought great things (including statement-level caching and smarter execution plan generation). There is however a little more overhead with the [...]