Is there a "Script table as - MERGE" function somewhere?

Question

In SSMS 2008 R2, when I right click on a table I see "Script Table as" then options for Insert and Update. But what about Merge? Merge is really just the two of these together.

Is there any tool I can get that will add that option? (So I can script a merge statement ready for me to add in source information (kind of like the Insert and Update scripts are ready for adding the data to insert or update).

Answer 1

There is no built-in functionality in SSMS that performs such operation(I guess it may be possible with external plugin).

There is a procedure sp_GenMerge(licensed under MIT license) written by Michał Gołoś that allows to script table with data as merge statement.

Sample scenario:

CREATE TABLE [Customer]  (
   ID                   INT                  IDENTITY(1,1) CONSTRAINT PK_CUSTOMER PRIMARY KEY (ID),
   FIRSTNAME            NVARCHAR(30)         NOT NULL,
   LASTNAME             NVARCHAR(30)         NOT NULL,
   CITY                 NVARCHAR(30)         NULL,
   COUNTRY              NVARCHAR(30)         NULL,
   PHONE                NVARCHAR(20)         NULL
);

INSERT INTO [Customer] ([FirstName],[LastName],[City],[Country],[Phone])
VALUES('John','Smith','Berlin','Germany','12345'),('Cathrine','Fa','Brasilia','Brasil','(3) 4324-4723');

Basic SP call(it supports more options - see doc):

EXEC sp_GenMerge @source_table = 'dbo.Customer';

Output:

DECLARE @xml XML = N'
<!-- Insert the generated data here -->
';


MERGE INTO dbo.Customer AS Target
USING (SELECT x.value('(@ID)', 'int') AS [ID]
            , x.value('(@FIRSTNAME)', 'nvarchar(30)') AS [FIRSTNAME]
            , x.value('(@LASTNAME)', 'nvarchar(30)') AS [LASTNAME]
            , x.value('(@CITY)', 'nvarchar(30)') AS [CITY]
            , x.value('(@COUNTRY)', 'nvarchar(30)') AS [COUNTRY]
            , x.value('(@PHONE)', 'nvarchar(20)') AS [PHONE]
        FROM @xml.nodes('v') AS t(x)) AS Source ([ID], [FIRSTNAME], [LASTNAME], [CITY], [COUNTRY], [PHONE])
  ON (Target.[ID] = Source.[ID])
WHEN NOT MATCHED BY TARGET
THEN INSERT([FIRSTNAME]
          , [LASTNAME]
          , [CITY]
          , [COUNTRY]
          , [PHONE])
     VALUES(Source.[FIRSTNAME]
          , Source.[LASTNAME]
          , Source.[CITY]
          , Source.[COUNTRY]
          , Source.[PHONE])
WHEN MATCHED AND EXISTS (SELECT Target.[FIRSTNAME]
                              , Target.[LASTNAME]
                              , Target.[CITY]
                              , Target.[COUNTRY]
                              , Target.[PHONE]
                         EXCEPT
                         SELECT Source.[FIRSTNAME]
                              , Source.[LASTNAME]
                              , Source.[CITY]
                              , Source.[COUNTRY]
                              , Source.[PHONE])
THEN UPDATE SET Target.[FIRSTNAME] = Source.[FIRSTNAME]
              , Target.[LASTNAME] = Source.[LASTNAME]
              , Target.[CITY] = Source.[CITY]
              , Target.[COUNTRY] = Source.[COUNTRY]
              , Target.[PHONE] = Source.[PHONE];
GO

And scripted rows as XML payload:

<v ID="1" FIRSTNAME="John" LASTNAME="Smith" CITY="Berlin" COUNTRY="Germany" PHONE="12345" />
<v ID="2" FIRSTNAME="Cathrine" LASTNAME="Fa" CITY="Brasilia" COUNTRY="Brasil" PHONE="(3) 4324-4723" />