Monthly Archive: January 2011

Deprecate UPDATE FROM? Not if I can help it!

Fellow MVP Hugo Kornelis (blog) has suggested that the proprietary UPDATE FROM and DELETE FROM syntax, which has worked for several SQL Server versions, should be deprecated in favor of MERGE. Here is the...

The fallacy of preventing plagiarism

If you're not living in a cave, you are probably aware of the blog posts and twitter discussions that resulted from an innocent post by Tom LaRock yesterday. This led to posts by Jonathan...

A better way to search Connect

I recently spotted a comment from Microsoft on a Connect item with 13 total up-votes.  The comment went something like, "wow, due to the explosive response to this issue, we're going to deal with...