If you are a SQL programmer, learning recursive SQL techniques can be a boon to your productivity. A recursive query is one that refers to itself. I think the best way to quickly grasp the concept of ...

Background:<BR>I have a self-referencing SQL Server 2005 table that looks something like...<BR><BR>ID PARENT KEY VALUE<BR>1 0 Hardware 0<BR>2 0 Software 0<BR>3 1 CPU Intel<BR>4 3 Speed 3 ghz ...

OK, this is a bit odd but will be fun -- View image here: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif --<br><br>I have 1 table.<br><br>Let ...

There is no simple way to create recursive queries that have several levels of data (hierarchical data) in SQL Server 2000. A recursive query is used when you have a parent and child data stored in ...

Read this SQL tutorial to learn when to use SELECT, JOIN, subselects and UNION to access multiple tables with a single statement. It’s sometimes difficult to know which SQL syntax to use when ...

SQL is about as easy as it gets in the world of programming, and yet its learning curve is still steep enough to prevent many people from interacting with relational databases. Salesforce’s AI ...

Thanks to the technology behind ChatGPT, it’s become surprisingly simple to query a data set in plain English. As with most generative AI, results from OpenAI’s API are still imperfect, which means ...