I've got an interesting constraint I'm trying to add to our database. I can do with with triggers, but am curious if there is a more elegant way to do this in T-SQL (SQL2005, FWIW) We have two related ...

In the original proposal for the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: A generic tool could perhaps be made to allow any database which uses a commercial DBMS to be displayed as a hypertext view. We ...

SQL Server's OpenJson function will let you dismantle JSON structures into relational tables, including tables with foreign/primary key relationships. As I noted in an earlier column, JSON is great ...

SQL Server's OpenJson function will let you dismantle JSON structures into relational tables, including tables with foreign/primary key relationships. As I noted in an earlier column, JSON is great ...

Hi,<BR><BR>I'm in the process of building a SQL clean-up script that will be removing lots of now redundant data from our Oracle DB.<BR><BR>It seems that for tables which contain a FK pointing back to ...

A common SQL habit is to use SELECT * on a query, because it’s tedious to list all the columns you need. Plus, sometimes those columns may change over time, so why not just do things the easy way? But ...