Oracle9i offers some great tools to make it easy to view the execution plan and trace information for a SQL statement. Prior to Oracle8i, you had to create a plan table and execute special syntax ...

While checking SQL syntax itself is somewhat straightforward, [Joe]’s sql-lint tool will also check the semantics of it by looking up the actual database and performing sanity checks on it.

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 ...

SQL injection has been a major security risk since the early days of the internet. Find out what's at risk, and how cybersecurity pros can defend their organizations.

Two such issues are text-to-SQL query and AI inference. SQL is the query language used for databases and it has been around in various forms for over 50 years.

The SQL you use in the SQL Editor window depends on the kind of Query Manager that you are using. If you have a SAS Query Manager, you use the SAS System's SQL procedure in the SQL Editor window. If ...

FROM statement using source data that's known to have flaws. Back to the OP - either filter out the bad records in the WHERE clause, or put a CASE statement in the UPDATE list. No need for a cursor.

SQL Server 2016 provides new support for working with JSON objects. In a previous column, I discussed how to generate JSON from SQL queries.This column looks at the reverse process: accepting JSON ...