diff --git a/flow/connectors/bigquery/bigquery.go b/flow/connectors/bigquery/bigquery.go
index b8831be301..ab1063dd28 100644
--- a/flow/connectors/bigquery/bigquery.go
+++ b/flow/connectors/bigquery/bigquery.go
@@ -816,15 +816,16 @@ func (c *BigQueryConnector) NormalizeRecords(req *model.NormalizeRecordsRequest)
 			},
 		}
 		// normalize anything between last normalized batch id to last sync batchid
-		mergeStmts := mergeGen.generateMergeStmts()
-		stmts = append(stmts, mergeStmts...)
+		mergeStmt := mergeGen.generateMergeStmt()
+		stmts = append(stmts, mergeStmt)
 	}
 	// update metadata to make the last normalized batch id to the recent last sync batch id.
 	updateMetadataStmt := fmt.Sprintf(
-		"UPDATE %s.%s SET normalize_batch_id=%d WHERE mirror_job_name = '%s';",
+		"UPDATE %s.%s SET normalize_batch_id=%d WHERE mirror_job_name='%s';",
 		c.datasetID, MirrorJobsTable, syncBatchID, req.FlowJobName)
 	stmts = append(stmts, updateMetadataStmt)
 	stmts = append(stmts, "COMMIT TRANSACTION;")
+	fmt.Println(stmts)
 
 	// put this within a transaction
 	// TODO - not truncating rows in staging table as of now.
diff --git a/flow/connectors/bigquery/merge_statement_generator.go b/flow/connectors/bigquery/merge_statement_generator.go
index 22161c434b..22f876b8c3 100644
--- a/flow/connectors/bigquery/merge_statement_generator.go
+++ b/flow/connectors/bigquery/merge_statement_generator.go
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ import (
 	"github.com/PeerDB-io/peer-flow/connectors/utils"
 	"github.com/PeerDB-io/peer-flow/generated/protos"
 	"github.com/PeerDB-io/peer-flow/model/qvalue"
-	"github.com/PeerDB-io/peer-flow/shared"
 )
 
 type mergeStmtGenerator struct {
@@ -30,24 +29,6 @@ type mergeStmtGenerator struct {
 	peerdbCols *protos.PeerDBColumns
 }
 
-// GenerateMergeStmt generates a merge statements.
-func (m *mergeStmtGenerator) generateMergeStmts() []string {
-	// return an empty array for now
-	flattenedCTE := m.generateFlattenedCTE()
-	deDupedCTE := m.generateDeDupedCTE()
-	tempTable := fmt.Sprintf("_peerdb_de_duplicated_data_%s", shared.RandomString(5))
-	// create temp table stmt
-	createTempTableStmt := fmt.Sprintf(
-		"CREATE TEMP TABLE %s AS (%s, %s);",
-		tempTable, flattenedCTE, deDupedCTE)
-
-	mergeStmt := m.generateMergeStmt(tempTable, m.peerdbCols)
-
-	dropTempTableStmt := fmt.Sprintf("DROP TABLE %s;", tempTable)
-
-	return []string{createTempTableStmt, mergeStmt, dropTempTableStmt}
-}
-
 // generateFlattenedCTE generates a flattened CTE.
 func (m *mergeStmtGenerator) generateFlattenedCTE() string {
 	// for each column in the normalized table, generate CAST + JSON_EXTRACT_SCALAR
@@ -129,7 +110,7 @@ func (m *mergeStmtGenerator) generateDeDupedCTE() string {
 }
 
 // generateMergeStmt generates a merge statement.
-func (m *mergeStmtGenerator) generateMergeStmt(tempTable string, peerdbCols *protos.PeerDBColumns) string {
+func (m *mergeStmtGenerator) generateMergeStmt() string {
 	// comma separated list of column names
 	backtickColNames := make([]string, 0, len(m.NormalizedTableSchema.Columns))
 	pureColNames := make([]string, 0, len(m.NormalizedTableSchema.Columns))
@@ -138,13 +119,13 @@ func (m *mergeStmtGenerator) generateMergeStmt(tempTable string, peerdbCols *pro
 		pureColNames = append(pureColNames, colName)
 	}
 	csep := strings.Join(backtickColNames, ", ")
-	insertColumnsSQL := csep + fmt.Sprintf(", `%s`", peerdbCols.SyncedAtColName)
+	insertColumnsSQL := csep + fmt.Sprintf(", `%s`", m.peerdbCols.SyncedAtColName)
 	insertValuesSQL := csep + ",CURRENT_TIMESTAMP"
 
 	updateStatementsforToastCols := m.generateUpdateStatements(pureColNames,
-		m.UnchangedToastColumns, peerdbCols)
+		m.UnchangedToastColumns, m.peerdbCols)
 	if m.peerdbCols.SoftDelete {
-		softDeleteInsertColumnsSQL := insertColumnsSQL + fmt.Sprintf(", `%s`", peerdbCols.SoftDeleteColName)
+		softDeleteInsertColumnsSQL := insertColumnsSQL + fmt.Sprintf(", `%s`", m.peerdbCols.SoftDeleteColName)
 		softDeleteInsertValuesSQL := insertValuesSQL + ", TRUE"
 
 		updateStatementsforToastCols = append(updateStatementsforToastCols,
@@ -162,25 +143,25 @@ func (m *mergeStmtGenerator) generateMergeStmt(tempTable string, peerdbCols *pro
 	pkeySelectSQL := strings.Join(pkeySelectSQLArray, " AND ")
 
 	deletePart := "DELETE"
-	if peerdbCols.SoftDelete {
-		colName := peerdbCols.SoftDeleteColName
+	if m.peerdbCols.SoftDelete {
+		colName := m.peerdbCols.SoftDeleteColName
 		deletePart = fmt.Sprintf("UPDATE SET %s = TRUE", colName)
-		if peerdbCols.SyncedAtColName != "" {
+		if m.peerdbCols.SyncedAtColName != "" {
 			deletePart = fmt.Sprintf("%s, %s = CURRENT_TIMESTAMP",
-				deletePart, peerdbCols.SyncedAtColName)
+				deletePart, m.peerdbCols.SyncedAtColName)
 		}
 	}
 
 	return fmt.Sprintf(`
-	MERGE %s.%s _peerdb_target USING %s _peerdb_deduped
+	MERGE %s.%s _peerdb_target USING (%s,%s) _peerdb_deduped
 	ON %s
 		WHEN NOT MATCHED and (_peerdb_deduped._peerdb_record_type != 2) THEN
 			INSERT (%s) VALUES (%s)
 		%s
 		WHEN MATCHED AND (_peerdb_deduped._peerdb_record_type = 2) THEN
 	%s;
-	`, m.Dataset, m.NormalizedTable, tempTable, pkeySelectSQL, insertColumnsSQL, insertValuesSQL,
-		updateStringToastCols, deletePart)
+	`, m.Dataset, m.NormalizedTable, m.generateFlattenedCTE(), m.generateDeDupedCTE(),
+		pkeySelectSQL, insertColumnsSQL, insertValuesSQL, updateStringToastCols, deletePart)
 }
 
 /*