Learn how to master the SELECT statement to form truly useful data queries. This article explains functions, clauses, and keywords that will make your life a lot easier.

What’s your average success rate of getting a SQL statement right on the first try? In best case, you botched a simple statement without side effects and just have to try again with correct ...

Using my previous example, that means the Select clause in my SQL statement must include an item named pkCID. Ad hoc queries like the ones that SqlQuery supported are on the roadmap for Entity ...

Statement level is the lowest level of granularity to fail or succeed upon. If you have in your example 100 records in table A to update based upon some logic (e.g. from another table, from a ...

The CONNECT statement establishes a connection with the DBMS. You establish a connection to send DBMS-specific SQL statements to the DBMS or to retrieve DBMS data. The connection remains in effect ...

The EXECUTE statement sends dynamic non-query, DBMS-specific SQL statements to the DBMS and processes those statements. In some SAS/ACCESS interfaces, you can issue an EXECUTE statement directly ...