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Learn SQL Server Greg Larsen in Learn SQL Server Manage Data Over Time with SQL Server MERGE Statement Once data is in a table it needs to be maintained. New records will need to be added, and existing... 17 January 2023 13 min read
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MySQL Robert Sheldon in MySQL Introducing the MySQL common table expression As with many relational database management systems, MySQL provides a variety of methods for combining data in a data manipulation... 05 January 2023 23 min read
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MySQL Robert Sheldon in MySQL Subqueries in MySQL A subquery is a type of query that is embedded—or nested—into a data manipulation language (DML) statement. The data returned... 02 December 2022 22 min read
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Learn SQL Server Greg Larsen in Learn SQL Server The Basics of Deleting Data from a SQL Server Table Over time data in SQL Server tables needs to be modified. There are two major different aspects of modifying data:... 07 November 2022 12 min read
MySQL Robert Sheldon in MySQL Introducing the MySQL UPDATE statement In the previous two articles in this series, you learned about SELECT and INSERT, two important data manipulation language (DML)... 28 October 2022 21 min read
Oracle Jonathan Lewis in Oracle Oracle optimizer Or Expansion Transformations The previous installment of this series examined aggregate subquery removal and subquery coalescing, describing the latter as similar in some... 26 October 2022 15 min read
Learn SQL Server Greg Larsen in Learn SQL Server The Basics of Updating Data in a SQL Server Table Once data is inserted into a table, data typically needs to be maintained as time goes on. To make changes... 21 October 2022 14 min read
MySQL Lukas Vileikis in MySQL Backing up MySQL Part 1: mysqldump mysqldump is one of the most popular database backup tools in the MySQL world. The tool is prevalent partly because... 14 October 2022 11 min read
MySQL Robert Sheldon in MySQL Introducing the MySQL INSERT statement In the previous article in this series, I introduced you to the SELECT statement, one of several SQL statements that... 07 October 2022 22 min read
Learn SQL Server Greg Larsen in Learn SQL Server The Basics of Inserting Data into a SQL Server Table Before data can be read from of a SQL Server database table, the table needs to contain rows of data.... 04 October 2022 15 min read
Blogs Louis Davidson in Blogs Generating Repeatable Sets Of Test Rows In order to test graph structures, I needed a large set of random data. In some ways, this data will... 30 September 2022 11 min read
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