One of the new features in CTP3 is the merge command. This was introduced in the ISO SQL:2003 revision of the SQL language definition. Some readers may be familiar with the term upsert which provides similar functionality in other databases. A common use of merge would be where a new set of data needs...

I've been looking at the June CTP build for a few days now. Only a small number of the promised features are actually available in this early build. One of the features that is available is DMF (Declaritive Management Framework). This allows organisations to define how their SQL Server(s) should behave...