A SELECT group of programmers with a DISTINCT advantage If you’re still with us, congratulate yourself—you survived the second part of our series on SQL basics!

And, as I mentioned in another tip, if you want to mix some update commands in with your Select statements, you can do that, too -- saving you even more trips. I wouldn't suggest that combining these ...

How to Use SQL Statements in MS Excel. With most Excel spreadsheets, you enter data manually into cells and then use formulas or other functions to analyze it or perform calculations. If you have ...

create of replace view stuff select id, value1, value2, 1 as type from tab2 union all select id, value1, value2, 2 as type from tab1 where tab1_value1 = "B" and tab1_value2 <> "C" union all ...

I know that I keep going on about this, but the best way to speed up your application is to retrieve all the data you need on each trip to the database and make as few trips to your database as you ...