Weekly SQL Training – MERGE Statement and Recursive Queries

The free SQL Server Queries weekly training is being presented by Steve Stedman. The training is being presented by Aaron Buma and myself. This week we are covering two topics, first the MERGE statement will be covered by Aaron, then I will present on Recursive Queries. There MERGE statement is one of those that I was not familiar enough with when I took the certification exam 2 years ago. The recursive queries section was touched on a bit during the CTE presentation, here I will go into much more detail with additional samples.

You can download the slides and TSQL sample code here:
MERGE-Statement-and-Recursive-Queries.zip

Here are the slides, located at slideshare:

And here is the video on my YouTube Channel:

This is a live broadcast that was available on Google On Air Broadcasts.

See Also:

• Free SQL Query Training

• Writing Your First Common Table Expression with SQL Server
• Video: Writing Your First CTE with SQL Server
• Common Table Expressions – Terminating the Previous Statement
• CTE Scope
• Introduction to Recursive CTEs
• Recursive CTE for Dates In A Year
• Expanding on Recursive Dates CTE
• Multiple CTEs in a Query
• Nested CTEs
• Nested CTE’s Gone Wild – The Video
• CTE Data Paging
• CTE Data Paging in a Procedure
• Using a CTE in a Function to Split Up a Query String

• Using a CTE to Split a String Into Rows
• Can we use CTEs use in SSRS?
• CTE Hierarchy compared to the alternative
• Calculating Factorials with a Recursive CTE
• CTE – With An Insert Statement
• Fibonacci Sequence
• Generating a Tree Path with a CTE
• CTE Query Performance
• Multiple CTE’s in a single Query
• Recursive CTE’s

More from Stedman Solutions:

Steve and the team at Stedman Solutions are here for all your SQL Server needs.
Contact us today for your free 30 minute consultation..
We are ready to help!