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.

If you've just started writing SQL Server queries, there's a good chance you probably wrote a query, saw it return the right ...

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 ...

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, ...