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 ...

I know, I try to avoid them as well whenever I can substitute them with DML statements that work correctly on a group of records. Cursors, they are great for less-technical people to describe intended ...

Read this SQL tutorial to learn when to use SELECT, JOIN, subselects and UNION to access multiple tables with a single statement. It’s sometimes difficult to know which SQL syntax to use when ...

The database utility dba_BlockTracer extracts data about the running processes by inspecting the system view sys.sysprocesses. This view then queries the underlying system table sysprocesses. CREATE ...