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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 [...]