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 ...

Data engineers who read and review SQL every day, but still run into inherited production queries that are painful to reason about. You've got a 150-line query, an INSERT ... SELECT, a MERGE, or a ...

Dynamic SQL lets you create a query string based off of user input. SQL Server allows you to create dynamic SQL statements. The statements use a SQL string varchar data type, then you execute the ...

In some SAS/ACCESS interfaces, you can issue an EXECUTE statement directly without first explicitly connecting to a DBMS (see CONNECT Statement). If you omit the CONNECT statement, an implicit ...

Well, if you happen to be using Sql Server you can do that sort of thing in T-Sql. In Oracle, you can also accomplish the same thing using pl/sql. Either way i'd do it in a stored ...