In a recent paper titled "SQL Has Problems. We Can Fix Them", a research team at Google proposed the introduction of a new Pipe Syntax in SQL. Google's solution to address perceived limitations in SQL ...

While checking SQL syntax itself is somewhat straightforward, [Joe]’s sql-lint tool will also check the semantics of it by looking up the actual database and performing sanity checks on it.

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 ...

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 come in the form of clauses ...

I'm doing this in a stored proc using SQL Server.<BR><BR>Basically, I'm executing 1 SELECT statement and if that returns any rows then I want to do a SELECT INTO #Temp With criteria A.