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Entering SQL Statements Directly

A message appears at the top of the SQL Editor window to indicate which SQL is being used. If you need to use a different set of tables, you can create a new Query Manager or talk to your SAS Support ...
ZDNet

Get detailed information about SQL statements

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 to ...
Ars Technica

[SQL] Handle SELECT INTO #TempTable In IF/ELSE Statement

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 ...
Ars Technica

SQL Select command - display only one result if multiple identical records?

In a SQL select statement how do I get it to only display a record once, regardless of how many times it is found.<BR><BR>I have a table with system names. In a lot of cases the system name is listed ...
Simon Fraser University

SQL Procedure Pass-Through Facility

The SQL Procedure Pass-Through Facility is an extension of the SQL procedure that enables you to send DBMS-specific statements to a DBMS and to retrieve DBMS data. You specify DBMS SQL syntax instead ...
CIOL

Speed tips for SQL server SELECT statements

You can code a SQL SELECT statement in a number of ways to get the same results, but some versions of the same query may perform betterthan others. In this tip we ...