Ars Technica

Powershell. SQL Query. How to determine if a query returns no results?

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 minutes ...
Ars Technica

[SQL] Handle SELECT INTO #TempTable In IF/ELSE Statement

Well, if you happen to be using Sql Server you can do that sort of thing in T-Sql. In Oracle, you can also accomplish the same thing using pl/sql. Either way i'd do it in a stored ...
TechRepublic

SQL JOINs make it easy to find and fix missing data

SQL JOINs make it easy to find and fix missing data Your email has been sent Many people are confused by various JOIN operations supported by SQL. Learn to master the SQL command line with this crash ...
ZDNet

Does it matter if your SQL is bad?

This guest post comes courtesy of Tony Baer’s OnStrategies blog. Tony is a principal analyst covering Big Data at Ovum. The question was all the more fitting and ironic given the setting — the event ...