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 ...

the easiest way to open SQL Profiler is to click on the Tools dropdown menu. Then select "SQL Server Profiler" from the menu. When the application opens, connect to the SQL Server instance that is ...

So, it looks like you can't do a statement like this:<BR><BR>IF <BR> SELECT *<BR> INTO #Temp<BR>ELSE<BR> SELECT *<BR> INTO #Temp<BR> WHERE....<BR><BR>What the best way to work around this?

I've tried all kinds of combinations of selecting the top 10 with a count query but can't seem to get the 10 records to be anything but the last 10 inserted. <BR><BR>Not being a strong SQL guy ...

SELECT options refine results As we saw in the last article, the SQL SELECT statement has the widest variety of query options, which are used to control the way data is returned. These options ...

This facet is why a view may be described as simply a “named” query. As one composes SQL Select statements, the author may use another query in place of any table or view. Even individual columns may ...