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If your business uses relational databases to store data, it helps to use the SQL SELECT command with the INTO clause to create new tables from query results. This method isn't ANSI-standard SQL, but ...

So lets say I have 5 databases, all with the same schema, but different data. I want to be able to build reports based on the data in all of those databases. How could I construct a view which would ...

I'm having a brain fart here... I have a feeling that I should be able to write a single query to handle this, but I just can't think of how... Basically, I have two tables: "distributors" and ...

Users who eschew traditional relational databases in favor of the newly emerging NoSQL databases might be “throwing the baby out with the bath water,” warned a database pioneer before a roomful of ...

SQL is neither the fastest nor the most elegant way to talk to databases, but it is the best way we have. Here’s why Today, Structured Query Language is the standard means of manipulating and querying ...