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.

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 ...

Statement level is the lowest level of granularity to fail or succeed upon. If you have in your example 100 records in table A to update based upon some logic (e.g. from another table, from a ...

I'm doing this in a stored proc using SQL Server.<BR><BR>Basically, I'm executing 1 SELECT statement and if that returns any rows then I want to do a SELECT INTO #Temp With criteria A.

The DESCRIBE TABLE statement writes a CREATE TABLE statement to the SAS log for the table specified in the DESCRIBE TABLE statement, regardless of how the table was originally created (for example, ...

The EXECUTE statement sends dynamic non-query, DBMS-specific SQL statements to the DBMS and processes those statements. In some SAS/ACCESS interfaces, you can issue an EXECUTE statement directly ...

Here are a few examples: Use parameterized queries in prepared statements. Separating user input from queries prevents it from being injected into SQL statements. By using placeholders for parameters ...