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Question: I am interested in learning SQL on my own and need to know if there are any tutorials or disks that I can obtain so that I can practice

Question: How do I retain the results of a query for use in subsequent queries using SQL Server? Answer: Well, you could either INSERT or INSERT SELECT your query into

Question: I’m curious to know, if I have a file full of data separated by commas, how do I read stuff from that file into SQL tables? Answer: The fastest

Question: What is the syntax for doing a cascade delete in SQL? For instance, I have a table with a parent record that has child records in other tables, filtering

Question: I’m looking for other tools for importing ASCII files to SQL server 7.0 without problems. At this moment I’m missing data and the tools can’t take care of it

Question: In all the Foxpro 5.0 documentation, I can’t find an example on how to update the contents of a field ofa table based on another table. For example, table

Question: I have developed an application that processes about 40,000 records every time it runs. I am using ADO 2.1 and each record is returning about 100 columns of data,

Question: In SQL Server 6.5, what is the meaning of ‘Error States’? I get this message in a stored procedure.What are these states 1-27. Answer: These numbers provide the context,

Question: Currently, I use SQL Mail in SQL Server 7.0 with Outlook and Exchange Server. I am sure there were no errors during set up, but when I went to