Which of these queries is the faster? NOT EXISTS: SELECT ProductID, ProductName FROM Northwind..Products p WHERE NOT EXISTS ( SELECT 1 FROM Northwind..[Order Details] …

The Microsoft book for SQL course says "You should use two-part names to refer to tables in SQL Server databases, such as Sales.Customer" so they don't ask to surround namespace with …

Sep 18, 2008 · Is it possible to use an IF clause within a WHERE clause in MS SQL? Example: WHERE IF IsNumeric(@OrderNumber) = 1 OrderNumber = @OrderNumber ELSE …

Sep 15, 2008 · The CASE statement is the closest to IF in SQL and is supported on all versions of SQL Server. SELECT CAST( CASE WHEN Obsolete = 'N' or InStock = 'Y' THEN 1 ELSE 0 …

I'm trying to run the following fairly simple query in SQL Server Management Studio: SELECT TOP 1000 * FROM master.sys.procedures as procs left join master.sys.parameters as params …

In MS SQL Server Database, use this query to get the tables and respective column names that contains the input text: SELECT t.name AS tableName, c.name AS columnName

SQL INNER JOIN The SQL JOIN clause allows you to associate rows that belong to different tables. For instance, a CROSS JOIN will create a Cartesian Product containing all possible …

May 17, 2011 · SQL> Oracle SQL allows us to ignore the case of database object names provided we either create them with names all in upper case, or without using double quotes.

This was an example, but the point is as Eric said in How can I do an UPDATE statement with JOIN in SQL Server?. You need to add an UPDATE statement at first with the full address of …

We all know that to select all columns from a table, we can use SELECT * FROM tableA Is there a way to exclude column(s) from a table without specifying all the columns? SELECT * [except …