If you work with T-SQL stored procedures, you may have encountered situations where you need to store intermediate results in temporary tables or table variables. These are useful for breaking ...

Table variables are a type of temporary table that can be used to store and manipulate data in SQL Server. They are declared and assigned values using the table data type, and they are ...

How to Reindex SQL Tables. The indexes on a the tables of a large database make a huge difference in its performance and utility. Without an index, locating a single record in a large table can ...

For those who find it tedious to manually generate the SQL table declarations, COBOL host variables, and COBOL indicator variables required to use embedded SQL for COBOL, here is a small Python script ...

The SET statement can operate only on one variable at a time, so if you need to assign values to multiple attributes, you need to use multiple SET statements. SQL Server also supports a nonstandard ...

Oracle SQL*Plus has a very useful subparameter to the column parameter called NEW_VALUE. The NEW_VALUE directive allows you to store data retrieved from an Oracle table as a variable inside the ...