Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Erland Sommarskog Newsgroups: comp.databases.ms-sqlserver Subject: Re: trying to replace multiple update statements with one update Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 23:44:08 +0200 Organization: Erland Sommarskog Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="nBFDv6s1VJQDuF1w6hpX2A"; logging-data="20377"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18lYS+hhIiKZJLz+0M5a8Ix" User-Agent: Xnews/2006.08.24 Mime-proxy/2.1.c.0 (Win32) Cancel-Lock: sha1:NSDBlu0YmLJvf2k6vUKtSY1ccuo= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.databases.ms-sqlserver:737 --CELKO-- (jcelko212@earthlink.net) writes: > You do know about the ANSI/ISO row constructors? It savrs a lot of > dialect and typing: No, in this context they don't save any typing, only wasting time. Migurus clearly said that he uses SQL 2005 which does not support row constructors for VALUES. -- Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se Links for SQL Server Books Online: SQL 2008: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/cc514207.aspx SQL 2005: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/bb895970.aspx