While checking SQL syntax itself is somewhat straightforward, [Joe]’s sql-lint tool will also check the semantics of it by looking up the actual database and performing sanity checks on it.

As we saw in the last article, the SQL SELECT statement has the widest variety of query options, which are used to control the way data is returned. These options come in the form of clauses ...

Microsoft continues to make positive strides in the world of open source. The company once considered open source software to be an anathema, but now it’s common for Microsoft to pull software ...

SQL Server 2016 provides new support for working with JSON objects. In a previous column, I discussed how to generate JSON from SQL queries. This column looks at the reverse process: accepting JSON ...

One other difference: With SqlQuery the names used in your SQL statement's Select clause had to match the names of the properties on your entity object. That means if you'd used the Column attribute ...

FROM statement using source data that's known to have flaws. Back to the OP - either filter out the bad records in the WHERE clause, or put a CASE statement in the UPDATE list. No need for a cursor.

Prepared statements avoid the process of compiling, parsing and running a stored procedure or inline SQL statement in your code. The PHP prepared statement function speeds up the application ...