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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Merge error handling
Learn to use recursion to determine which row caused your merge statement to fail in this article.
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Escaping Like I
I have this data in a SQL Server 2022 table:
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