Although tables in SQL databases typically contain massive amounts of data, they’re not always in a format that can be used by data analysts. The data records in these tables need to be filtered ...

Why are there INFOMATION_SCHEMA and catalog views in SQL Server that do very similar things? For example, to retrieve a list of tables in a database, I can do it via sys.tables or ...

DATA step views are very versatile because they can harness the power of SAS DATA step processing, including DO loops and IF-THEN-ELSE statements. DATA step views do not have write capability, that is ...

A typical screen in your user interface probably combines data from several different tables. To handle that, I typically have my back-end processes generate Data Transfer Objects (DTOs) which combine ...

Twice in the past couple of months I’ve gotten tripped up by the same data issue when using LINQ to Entities in the .NET framework. I create a simple view in my database which performs some ...

Manually querying V$ views or AWR is inefficient and difficult to track over the long term. Through automated s, we can continuously collect Top SQL, establish historical data, and form a complete ...

I'm using MSSQL Server 2000. Is it possible to use SET statements in views. I need to use SET ARITHIGNORE ON & SET ARITHABORT OFF to allow a divide/0 to return null (which I can change to 0 using ...