Question

I am trying to recreate a stored procedure on a database which is hosted on a remote server.
When creating the same SP locally I don’t get any errors but when I am trying to create the SP on the remote server I am getting this errors:

Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Procedure MySP, Line 26
Incorrect syntax near 'MERGE'.
Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Procedure MySP, Line 27
Incorrect syntax near 'S'.

Those errors are repeating in multiple SP and I didn’t get them when I created the SP’s on my local server.
Any idea what can that be?
Here is a sample SP:

USE [MyDatabase]
GO
/****** Object:  StoredProcedure [dbo].[InsertContractorInfo]    Script Date: 11/07/2012 01:08:31 ******/
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
-- =============================================
-- Author:      <Author,,Name>
-- Create date: <Create Date,,>
-- Description: <Description,,>
-- =============================================
--exec [dbo].[InsertContractorInfo] 
CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[InsertContractorInfo]
(@CompanyName nvarchar(50), 
 @LicenseNumber nvarchar(50),
 @MailingAddress1 nvarchar(200),
 @MailingAddress2 nvarchar(200),
 @Phone nvarchar(10),
 @Fax nvarchar(10),
 @Mobile nvarchar(10),
 @Email nvarchar(200),
 @PercentCommercial int,
 @PercentResidental int,
 @TotalEmployees int,
 @AnnualSales decimal(18,2),
 @InsuranceCompanyContact nvarchar(100)=null,
 @InsuranceCompanyContactEmail nvarchar(100)=null,
 @InsuranceCompanyContactPhone nvarchar(100)=null,
 @ContractorID uniqueidentifier)
AS
BEGIN
MERGE dbo.Contractor con
USING(SELECT 1 S) S
ON con.Oid = @ContractorID
WHEN MATCHED THEN UPDATE 
   SET       
      [CompanyName] = @CompanyName      
      ,[LicenseNumber] = @LicenseNumber
      ,[MailingAddress1] = @MailingAddress1
      ,[MailingAddress2] = @MailingAddress2
      ,[Phone] = @Phone
      ,[Fax] = @Fax
      ,[EMail] =@Email
      ,[Mobile] =@Mobile      
      ,[PercentCommercial] = @PercentCommercial
      ,[PercentResidental] = @PercentResidental
      ,[TotalEmployees] = @TotalEmployees
      ,[ApproximateAnnualSales] = @AnnualSales      
      ,[InsuranceCompanyContact] = @InsuranceCompanyContact
      ,[InsuranceCompanyContactPhone] = @InsuranceCompanyContactPhone
      ,[InsuranceCompanyContactEmail] = @InsuranceCompanyContactEmail      
WHEN NOT MATCHED THEN
INSERT 
           ([Oid]       
           ,[CompanyName]           
           ,[LicenseNumber]
           ,[MailingAddress1]
           ,[MailingAddress2]
           ,[Phone]
           ,[Fax]
           ,[EMail]
           ,[Mobile]                      
           ,[PercentCommercial]
           ,[PercentResidental]
           ,[TotalEmployees]
           ,[ApproximateAnnualSales]                      
           ,[InsuranceCompanyContact]
           ,[InsuranceCompanyContactPhone]
           ,[InsuranceCompanyContactEmail])
     VALUES
           (@ContractorId           
           ,@CompanyName           
           ,@LicenseNumber
           ,@MailingAddress1
           ,@MailingAddress2
           ,@Phone
           ,@Fax
           ,@EMail
           ,@Mobile
           ,@PercentCommercial
           ,@PercentResidental
           ,@TotalEmployees
           ,@AnnualSales                     
           ,@InsuranceCompanyContact
           ,@InsuranceCompanyContactPhone
           ,@InsuranceCompanyContactEmail
           );
END
GO

Thanks, Laziale

Answer 1

This merger feature works with sql sever 2008 + versions , if you are trying to use in sql server 2005 you can do like this merge mimic in 2005

http://sqlserver-tips.blogspot.com/2006/09/mimicking-merge-statement-in-sql.html