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T-SQL | COMBINE UPDATE AND INSERT STATEMENTS

Listing 5. This procedure demonstrates a technique for combining an Insert statement and an Update statement into a single stored procedure. CREATE PROCEDURE STDA.CustomersUpdate @CustomerID NCHAR(5), ...
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SQL Server 2005 TSQL syntax for getting dta out of an update or insert

this will return: "(1 row(s) affected)" But now I need to know, what data was actually inserted? SQL Server has answered this question in 2005 with the OUTPUT statement: This will return a dataset ...