Nov 8, 2013 · What does <> (angle brackets) mean in MS-SQL Server? Asked 11 years, 8 months ago Modified 3 years, 10 months ago Viewed 80k times

The @CustID means it's a parameter that you will supply a value for later in your code. This is the best way of protecting against SQL injection. Create your query using parameters, rather than …

Feb 12, 2009 · When using SQL, are there any benefits of using = in a WHERE clause instead of LIKE? Without any special operators, LIKE and = are the same, right?

Sep 10, 2008 · SELECT DISTINCT a,b,c FROM t is roughly equivalent to: SELECT a,b,c FROM t GROUP BY a,b,c It's a good idea to get used to the GROUP BY syntax, as it's more powerful. …

We all know that to select all columns from a table, we can use SELECT * FROM tableA Is there a way to exclude column(s) from a table without specifying all the columns? SELECT * [except …

Sep 7, 2009 · Excellent. Exactly what I needed to remove hard-coded values from my code. My string masks are stored in a configuration table. The old code had each one hard-coded. This …

Aug 2, 2012 · After having created a temporary table and declaring the data types like so; CREATE TABLE #TempTable( ID int, Date datetime, Name char(20)) How do I then insert the …

A LEFT OUTER JOIN will return all records from the LEFT table joined with the RIGHT table where possible. If there are matches, though, it will still return all rows that match. Therefore, …

I'm looking at creating a basic ORM (purely for fun), and was wondering, is there a way to return the list of tables in a database and also the fields for every table? Using this, I want to be abl...

Considering that TEST_SCRIPT is a CLOB why when I run this simple query from SQL*PLUS on Oracle, I get the error: ORA-00932: inconsistent datatypes: expected - got CLOB I have been …