In the case above, I resorted to using DELETE FROM statements for each table, and suffered the performance penalty. What I would have preferred is the ability to run a SQL script to delete all the ...

In part 2 of a series, On VB columnist Joe Kunk provides a Visual Basic program to generate a SQL script that clears all the data from a SQL Server database.

Read this SQL tutorial to learn when to use SELECT, JOIN, subselects and UNION to access multiple tables with a single statement.