I need to select some data (surprise) from several tables in a linked database which is running SQL Server 2000.<BR><BR>Now the resulting data set will be about 10,000 records taken from ~ 8 ...
I wrote a query (with lots of help, see my painfully plentiful other threads) using a correlated subquery and it takes 5.78 seconds PER RECORD to return results. The SAME query, only I select the ...
Read this SQL tutorial to learn when to use SELECT, JOIN, subselects and UNION to access multiple tables with a single statement. It’s sometimes difficult to know which SQL syntax to use when ...
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 ...