Slowly changing dimensions using T-SQL MERGE
Of all the technical solutions to the problem of slowly changing dimensions, the T-SQL MERGE statement is one of the most elegant.
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Learn to use recursion to determine which row caused your merge statement to fail in this article.
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In SQL Server 2025, what are the most outgoing and incoming FK references a table can have?
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