Dan Jones wrote a great post about Facets from the new Policy-Based Management feature of SQL Server 2008. At one point in the post, he listed all of the available facets and their supported evaluation modes. Since SQL Server 2008 is not RTM, and since facets can be added in the future, I thought I'd write a query that would list the facets and ...

I guess that many people using UPDATE … FROM on a daily basis do so without being aware that they are violating all SQL standards.   All versions of the ANSI SQL standard that I checked agree that an UPDATE statement has three clauses – the UPDATE clause, naming the table to be updated; the SET clause, specifying the columns to change and ...