The Grumpy Old DBA is an independent DBA. Specialising in production support, performance, tuning and optimisation of SQL Server databases and applications.
Just noticed this post from the PSS Team http://blogs.msdn.com/psssql/archive/2009/10/26/reduce-locking-and-other-needs-when-updating-data-better-performance.aspx
never knew you could do double assignment x = y = z.