Ars Technica

SQL: UPDATE on the results of another query - help please

This is driving me CRAZY...<BR><BR>I need to do two things:<BR>1 - SELECT all the records out of an employee history table where the employee ID appears for the FIRST time. (Every x time period a new ...
Ars Technica

SQL Server DTS Q.... Take two fields in .txt file and update based on query

I have a txt file with two fields. I want to update a value in a table in a SQL Server Db with a value from one of the fields in the text file. I want to do this based on a query using the second ...
InfoWorld

SQL unleashed: 9 ways to speed up your SQL queries

A common SQL habit is to use SELECT * on a query, because it’s tedious to list all the columns you need. Plus, sometimes those columns may change over time, so why not just do things the easy way? But ...
Computerworld

Evaluere en update sql query der ikke opdaterer nogle rækker

Hvordan analyserer jeg bedst denne sql-statement. Får at vide, at den opdaterer 0 rækker men kan ikke lige finde ud af, hvor det går galt. Function updateEmployee(ByVal employeeId As Integer, ByVal ...