Now we’ll look at the basic types of database queries that are focused on manipulating data within a database. For our purposes, all examples are in standard SQL, and these basic functions ...

Get up to speed on MySQL basics with this step-by-step tutorial on how to create a database, add a table, and input data into the table. I talk a lot about server software and apps that require ...

If you include the field names, your code is self-documenting When a field name changes, you want to know with a query error, not later Asking for more than you need is just wasting resources ...

As we saw in the last article, the SQL SELECT statement has the widest variety of query options, which are used to control the way data is returned. These options come in the form of clauses ...