Shelley Doll finishes her coverage of SQL data types with an overview of datetime and interval data types. Learn more about the basic syntax of these standard SQL types.

Kevin Kline, president of the Professional Association of SQL Server users (PASS) user group, was once a dyed-in-the-wool Oracle aficionado. Prior to getting his hands on Microsoft Corp.'s SQL ...

SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL Database both give you tables that automatically keep track of changes to your data. Here's how to both create those tables and alter existing tables so they track the ...

How to Specify Yesterday in SQL. The SQL query language was designed to provide programmers with a way to create, maintain and modify databases in a structured way. Using SQL, the programmer can ...

I have a DateTime field ("TheDate") in a SQLServer db that I am trying to sort on/order by. I need only the 'date' portion of the field, however, which isn't tough to pull out, but getting a ...

He said it was "an excellent two-way learning experience" and one of the things he learned was that the SQL Server Migration Assistant for MySQL 1.0 (SSMA) can convert specific database queries in ...