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 ...

The SQL Procedure Pass-Through Facility is an extension of the SQL procedure that enables you to send DBMS-specific statements to a DBMS and to retrieve DBMS data. You specify DBMS SQL syntax instead ...

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 ...

In a SQL select statement how do I get it to only display a record once, regardless of how many times it is found.<BR><BR>I have a table with system names. In a lot of cases the system name is listed ...

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 ...