The CONNECTION TO component in the FROM clause of a PROC SQL SELECT statement retrieves data directly from a DBMS. The DISCONNECT statement terminates the connection to the DBMS. The following ...

See Using DBMS Data in Version 7 and Version 8 for examples. If you are using descriptors, you can specify them in the SQL procedure's INSERT, DELETE, and UPDATE statements. You can also use these ...

Developers often dismiss dynamic SQL used in PL/SQL programs for two reasons. One reason is that it's riskier because the SQL statements aren't parsed until runtime, so it's more difficult to ...

The PL/SQL package DBMS_RANDOM can generate random text and date values as well as numbers. Check out these code examples to learn how you can generate these values in your development work.

The surprise came when Microsoft SQL Server was announced as the DBMS of the year for 2016 by DB-Engines.com. For the 12 months of 2016, SQL Server experienced a steep rise in popularity as a search ...

This is recursion in action. Different DBMS products implement recursive SQL in different ways. Recursion is implemented in standard SQL-99 using common table expressions (CTEs). DB2, Microsoft SQL ...