What are the advanced Features With SQL2008 over SQL2005 Particularly with TSQL
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What are the advanced Features With SQL2008 over SQL2005 Particularly with TSQL
The big one for me, although it’s not really T-SQL related, is intellisense. About time too 🙂
As for the language…
T-SQL finally got shortcut assignment in 2008:
The
MERGEstatement allows all sorts of modification goodness, based on the results of joining tables together.There are a bunch of GROUP BY enhancements, like GROUPING SETS, and operations on cubes.
There are new datatypes to play with
There are a few others too. See the official new features page for more.