Common Table Expressions (CTEs) allow you to compartmentalise and organise your queries, to provide increased readability and hopefully easier maintenance. CTEs provide a dataset that an immediate ...

If your business uses relational databases to store data, it helps to use the SQL SELECT command with the INTO clause to create new tables from query results. This method isn't ANSI-standard SQL, but ...

In OpenOffice 2.0 Reports, it's easy to do the simple stuff, like just printing the contents of a table or query. It requires no SQL know-how at all, just the ability to press F4 and click and drag.

Knowing what you want from SQL Server is probably the biggest step toward running it successfully in business applications, according to consultant Koen Verbeeck. It's not just about knowing how SQL ...

SQL is neither the fastest nor the most elegant way to talk to databases, but it is the best way we have. Here’s why Today, Structured Query Language is the standard means of manipulating and querying ...

LibreOffice contains a very powerful database tool that is actually quite user friendly. Here’s how to create a database query using the Design View tool. We may earn from vendors via affiliate links ...

Build a lightweight SQL regression detector that tracks latency, detects anomalies, analyzes plans, and catches slowdowns ...

JSON is a very common method of describing data, in many ways it is a successor to the often much wordier XML. The basics of JSON are discussed, describing its 2 main components: Objects and Arrays, ...