Read this SQL tutorial to learn when to use SELECT, JOIN, subselects and UNION to access multiple tables with a single statement. It’s sometimes difficult to know which SQL syntax to use when ...

I hope this is the right place for this type of question. I apologize for the question length but to try and be complete I'll include a bit of background.<BR><BR>I am currently working on a project ...

Suppose you want to display data contained in an array or collection in a table-like format, i.e., in rows and columns. You want to be able to choose which attributes to display. In addition, you want ...

Note: This example uses a Version 6 view descriptor with the Pass-Through Facility to access DBMS data. Beginning in Version 7, you can associate a libref directly with your DBMS data and use the ...

SQL is neither the fastest nor the most elegant way to talk to databases, but it is the best way we have. Here’s why Today, Structured Query Language is the standard means of manipulating and querying ...

JSON has stolen some of XML's thunder with features such as human and machine readability, a lightweight, compact text structure and support for many software and hardware platforms. JSON (JavaScript ...

Microsoft has just added support for query hints to Azure SQL Database, giving database administrators a powerful tool to manage the performance of ISV application code. Here's how it works. Database ...