I'm working on some code that uses SQL. I don't do much with DB stuff, but I know enough to make my changes. The SQL I've seen doesn't seem to settle on a capitalization convention, i.e. caps or not ...

Poorly written SQL statements can cause significant performance problems in your database environment. According to some experts, poorly written SQL can cause up to 70% of performance problems overall ...

A prepared statement is a SQL statement that has been compiled, or prepared, into an access or query plan for efficiency. A prepared statement is available for reuse by the application without the ...

Devart announced a new extended version of dbForge SQL Complete, a powerful SQL Server Management Studio add-in that introduces extended SQL code autocomplete and formatting for fastest writing SQL ...

SQL*Plus can be found in the Oracle for Windows NT program group. Before it starts, the user is prompted to enter a username and password and then a new window is created, as shown in Figure 5.1, into ...

Chapter 2, How to use Oracle SQL Developer and other tools This chapter from Murach's Oracle SQL and PL/SQL explains how to work with Oracle SQL Developer and other tools. In this section, learn how ...

What’s your average success rate of getting a SQL statement right on the first try? In best case, you botched a simple statement without side effects and just have to try again with correct syntax or ...

Oracle9i offers some great tools to make it easy to view the execution plan and trace information for a SQL statement. Prior to Oracle8i, you had to create a plan table and execute special syntax to ...

Anyone know how to work with commas and apostrophes coming in as input from a form, and inserting this data into a record using SQL in ASP? If the user enters data with an apostrophe into a text box, ...