Database Programming: Why I Like MERGEhttp://blogs.technet.com/b/wardpond/archive/2009/08/24/database-programming-why-i-like-merge.aspxIn the wake of last month’s post on my new development efforts in SQL Server 2008, several of you have asked me to go into further detail.&#160; This post is my first effort to answer those questions; right now, we’ll focus on these two , which relateen-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://sqlblog.com/blogs/adam_machanic/archive/2009/08/24/dr-output-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-merge.aspxhttp://blogs.technet.com/b/wardpond/archive/2009/08/24/database-programming-why-i-like-merge.aspx#3276853Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:50:22 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3276853TrackBack<img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3276853" width="1" height="1">re: Database Programming: Why I Like MERGEhttp://blogs.technet.com/b/wardpond/archive/2009/08/24/database-programming-why-i-like-merge.aspx#3276540Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:04:34 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3276540Andrew Bauer<p>Awesome article. Thanks for the XML merge code.</p> <p>On another not; other than conversion of data types, have you done any XML data validation before? I was reading in the SQL documentation about typed XML data types and was curious if this could be used to achieve validation, but was not sure how to implement them.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3276540" width="1" height="1">