TechRepublic

SQL JOINs make it easy to find and fix missing data

Many people are confused by various JOIN operations supported by SQL. Learn to master the SQL command line with this crash course in JOIN syntax. In response to previous SQL lessons, TechRepublic ...
Ars Technica

[SQL] Need help forming SQL query for Inner Join via OleDB (MS Access)

I'm writing some code in C# where I need to (inner?) join two tables into a DataSet / DataTable.<BR><BR>Essentially, I have two tables. Both have columns called "TestId" and "OperationId". Both are ...
Redmond Magazine

A Deep Dive into SQL Server 2022's Query Performance Features, Part 1

An update to the cardinality estimator feature in SQL Server 2022 will be one of the biggest changes to the database engine since its inception. Database engines like SQL Server are incredibly complex ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Getting All the Results When Joining with LINQ

When you want to find all the objects that are missing a corresponding object, then you need the LINQ equivalent of an outer join. Here, step by painful step, is how to build that query. Here's a ...