If your business uses relational databases to store data, it helps to use the SQL SELECT command with the INTO clause to create new tables from query results. This method isn't ANSI-standard SQL, but ...

In earlier versions of SQL Server, after selecting a join algorithm, SQL Server had to process it even if a better alternative might be available. In SQL Server 2017, the query optimizer can now sense ...

JSON has stolen some of XML's thunder with features such as human and machine readability, a lightweight, compact text structure and support for many software and hardware platforms. JSON (JavaScript ...

Everyone wants faster database queries, and both SQL developers and DBAs can turn to many time-tested methods to achieve that goal. Unfortunately, no single method is foolproof or ironclad. But even ...

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 ...