Oracle SQL*Plus has a very useful subparameter to the column parameter called NEW_VALUE. The NEW_VALUE directive allows you to store data retrieved from an Oracle table as a variable inside the ...

There are quite a few ways to increment and decrement numeric variables in bash. This post examines the many ways you can do this. When preparing scripts that will run in bash, it’s often critical to ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. In this, Part 4 of a series on programming T-SQL, Gregory ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. There are various ways of using global variables in ...

Ok. I have some tables that store dollar amounts, among other data. I had the fields set to be a data type of money, and was planning on the values including zero. When selecting the data, I was ...

CHARACTER instructs SAS to read character data values into character variables. COLUMN-BINARY instructs SAS to read data stored in column-binary or multipunched form into character and numeric values.