Merge statements combine update and insert statements into one; rows, when matched, can be deleted or updated, and non-matched rows are simply inserted.
Assume that both tables have the same unique primary index and contain 1 million rows.
An update is a very CPU or I/O intensive operator, as rows need to be modified, and if needed a table will be redistributed based on new values.
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