jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Thu Sep 3 09:32:38 CDT 2009
I have a set of 5 tables. These tables contain names and number of children in age ranges. As a first pass at processing, I need to merge the 5 tables into one table such that the name / address only gets into the table one time, IOW every record in the first table, but only the records in table 2 where the name / address data is not already in the destination table. SQL Server 2005. Clustered index on the name / address / zip5 / zip4 of the source tables. I have not been able to find an append syntax that will append the records not in the table but prevent appending those already in, without aborting the entire append operation. What is the magic key here? -- John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com