What’s your average success rate of getting a SQL statement right on the first try? In best case, you botched a simple statement without side effects and just have to try again with correct syntax or ...

Learn how to master the SELECT statement to form truly useful data queries. This article explains functions, clauses, and keywords that will make your life a lot easier. Due to popular demand, we’re ...

Sorry this will be bare-bones, but I'm in a hurry.<BR><BR>Background: I'm not a coder- I just know enough to get myself into trouble. I need help writing an SQL statement that'll be used inside a ...

I have a table with two columns: time and size (integer) . There are thousands of rows, but here's an example:<BR>13:08:01 333535<BR>13:08:05 43963<BR>13:09:01 123456<BR>13:15:33 1931<BR><BR>I'd like ...

BANGALORE, INDIA: In SQL Server 2008, you can perform insert, update, or delete operations in a single statement using the MERGE statement. MERGE statement allows you to join a data source with a ...

The beauty and joy of a relational database is the concept of relational closure—everything is a table. Beyond the eponymous table, query results are also “tables.” Any query serves as a table to be ...