For example, Microsoft's SQL Server has an "Exists" keyword allowing you to easily check to see if a record exists; Oracle's SQL does not have this feature, but you can work around the shortcoming ...

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.

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 ...