TechRepublic

SQL JOINs make it easy to find and fix missing data

SQL JOINs make it easy to find and fix missing data Your email has been sent Many people are confused by various JOIN operations supported by SQL. Learn to master the SQL command line with this crash ...
Ars Technica

[SQL] Need help forming SQL query for Inner Join via OleDB (MS Access)

I'm writing some code in C# where I need to (inner?) join two tables into a DataSet / DataTable.<BR><BR>Essentially, I have two tables. Both have columns called "TestId" and "OperationId". Both are ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Working with JSON in SQL Queries

SQL Server 2016 lets you treat JSON objects like rows in a table, allowing you to use data from AJAX queries in joins, updates and any other SQL statement you can think of. SQL Server 2016 provides ...
Ars Technica

Preventing SQL joins when source field is null

I have to write a query on a positively atrocious table (this is with MSSQL 2005). Basically, multiple "lists" are stored in a single gigantic table called "UserData". I'm building the SQL statement ...
InfoWorld

SQL unleashed: 9 ways to speed up your SQL queries

A common SQL habit is to use SELECT * on a query, because it’s tedious to list all the columns you need. Plus, sometimes those columns may change over time, so why not just do things the easy way? But ...
TechCrunch

Salesforce is using AI to democratize SQL so anyone can query databases in natural language

SQL is about as easy as it gets in the world of programming, and yet its learning curve is still steep enough to prevent many people from interacting with relational databases. Salesforce’s AI ...