Re: Is it bad design
> "I am a postgres fan, but when I make a table without a database driven primary key which kind of requires an upset, I always think it's bad design."
You might have got the wrong end of the stick - MERGE (SQL Server/ANSI standard version of UPSERT) is great for doing data imports when you'll have some inserts, some updates, and some deletes. Yes, you could write it as 3 statements (insert, update, delete), but sometimes just having it in a single statement can increase code clarity quite a bit by making intentions exceptionally obvious.
https://www.simple-talk.com/sql/learn-sql-server/the-merge-statement-in-sql-server-2008/
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