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 ...

Oracle9i offers some great tools to make it easy to view the execution plan and trace information for a SQL statement. Prior to Oracle8i, you had to create a plan table and execute special syntax to ...

Hi I need some help with a select statement in MS SQL. I have a table that need to check if there duplicate items there. The problem is that each items is based off of 4 fields in the table. Here is ...

To update the data, you can specify view descriptors in the PROC SQL INSERT, DELETE, and UPDATE statements. Here is a summary of these PROC SQL statements: DELETE deletes records from a CA-DATACOM/DB ...

You can code a SQL SELECT statement in a number of ways to get the same results, but some versions of the same query may perform betterthan others. In this tip we ...

Beginning in Version 7 of SAS/ACCESS software, there are a number of changes in the way the SQL Procedure Pass-Through Facility works. For more information, see SQL Procedure Pass-Through Facility ...