If your business uses relational databases to store data, it helps to use the SQL SELECT command with the INTO clause to create new tables from query results. This method isn't ANSI-standard SQL, but ...

SQL Server 2008 introduces the ability to pass a table data type into stored procedures and functions. The table parameter feature can greatly ease the development process because you no longer need ...

The indexes on a the tables of a large database make a huge difference in its performance and utility. Without an index, locating a single record in a large table can take several seconds; with the ...

A SQL Server expert gives his take on the absolute, No. 1, very worst thing IT pros can do when it comes to indexing. Consultant, author and Microsoft MVP Denny Cherry travels the world helping ...

I've said it before and I'll say it again: If you want to speed up your application, don't look at your code, look at your data access. The two slowest things you can do in application development are ...

You create PROC SQL tables from SAS data files, from SAS data views, from relational DBMS tables using the LIBNAME statement, or from relational DBMS tables using the SQL Procedure Pass-Through ...

Hi,<BR><BR>I'm in the process of building a SQL clean-up script that will be removing lots of now redundant data from our Oracle DB.<BR><BR>It seems that for tables which contain a FK pointing back to ...

While temporal data support is something that has existed in the past within other database platforms, it is a newly available feature with the RTM version of SQL Server 2016. In case you haven’t ...

A common SQL habit is to use SELECT * on a query, because it’s tedious to list all the columns you need. Plus, sometimes those columns may change over time, so why not just do things the easy way? But ...

Say we have two types of tools: hammers and wrenches. We have a list of work orders, and we want to track what tool was used for the hammering and what was used for the wrenching. The problem is that ...