Learn how to master the SELECT statement to form truly useful data queries. This article explains functions, clauses, and keywords that will make your life a lot easier.

Non-SELECT SQL statements can be saved to and executed from the Result Manager window. See Saving SQL Code or Output and Doing More with Results for information.

The Query Wizard box will appear on the screen. Click and select the table in the data source that contains the fields you want to query with SQL and import into your Excel spreadsheet.

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 ...

The outer PROC SQL query retrieves data from the view descriptor; the subquery uses a Pass-Through query to retrieve data. This query returns the names of employees who earn less than the average ...

One of the most common problems when running SQL Servers is slow queries. The help desk or database team usually hears that described as the application is slow or the database is slow. In the ...

Tables, views, and queries may be blurred together. 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 ...

I’ve created a script that monitors a table in a SQL Server database. I’m only interested in one column in the table: TimeStamp. If the maximum (newest) value in TimeStamp is more than 30 ...