Re: SQL: VALUES ... INTO vs. SET -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: SQL: VALUES ... INTO vs. SET
From: David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2017 10:04:50 -0500
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On 7/29/17 5:03 AM, Birgitta Hauser wrote:

AFAIK SET and VALUES INTO work in the same way.
SET and VALUES INTO work both if a single value is to be returned from a
function or if a single row is to be returned.
The only difference I know is, VALUES INTO can be used with dynamic SQL,
while SET cannot be used with dynamic SQL.

Thanks all. Good info.

Pretty much confirmed my suspicion.

david

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