I'm doing this in a stored proc using SQL Server.<BR><BR>Basically, I'm executing 1 SELECT statement and if that returns any rows then I want to do a SELECT INTO #Temp With criteria A.

Though views can be queried like a table, views are dynamic; only the definition of the view is stored, not the data. The syntax of a CREATE VIEW statement: The syntax of a REPLACE VIEW statement: The ...

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 ...

Thus, there should be no need for the subquery to select any columns of its own since they will all be replaced by the implicit "SELECT 1" from the exists anyways. Rewriting the above as: subquery = ...

In this article we will learn how to check if a stored procedure exists before creating it. We can use the below script which will drop the proc if it exists and then recreate it.

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series.. Query Store is one of the most powerful database-scoped features in SQL Server for troubleshooting performance and improving the stability of your database ...

I’ve created a script that monitors a table in a SQL Server database. I’m only interested in one column in the table: TimeStamp. If the maximum (newest) value in TimeStamp is more than 30 ...