This article is over 2 1/2 years old, and it generated some controversy the first time around. So why is it a "featured article" in today's newsletter?

Steve, do you...

Steve Schmechel,

Thanks for logging in just to crap all over the article, that time as not wasted. I'm sure everyone appreciates your snide comments and asinine POV. You...

A top notch article as usual, Mr. Poole. Where I work it's all waterfalls....

Wow, if this is an indication of the new quality of articles at SQLServerCentral, color me impressed! Over impressed, I'm kinda wowed.

"if you have to touch more internal rows...

" That would mean you have a magical,

super function that works on Squids, Automobiles, Britney Spears"

That's a great quote, but I don't think it's necessarily pejorative, as the link states....

Nice method by Ben-Gan! He "wins", 'cause I just bought his book.

You could do this as a recursive CTE; that would be cool.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186243.aspx

I like the way you code, Robert, looking forward to seeing more articles.

I like the way the article was written, but the examples were trivial ones that could easily be done with a simple select. The recursive article linked to in...

Couldn't have said it better myself, Brian! An independent community would be better for everyone, and I would say the same thing if apexsql bought the site.

That said, we're...

"I decided in the end that nobody was going to come up with an answer to my previous question about the performance difference between a cursor-based procedure, and one based...

OK, I went and read through the comments in question, and I didn't see any flame war. Maybe people weren't as nice as they could be, but they seemed...

"The exception being you can insult me if you really want to."

lol..that's funny.

It's a good joke, but in all seriousness you should censor anybody who insults you, too. Don't think...

Oh, upsert...thought this was the upskirt discussion.

But seriously, what's wrong with the following?

Update e

set ColumnName = i.ColumnName

from ImportTable i

JOIN TableName e on i.uniqueID = e.uniqueID

Insert TableName (ColumnName)

select i.ColumnName

from ImportTable...

Is it just me, or is the article missing?

Wow, awesome news for you guys, congratulations! If I was going to be at PASS this year I'd shake your hands, but I'm cheap and couldn't get anybody to...