SQL is neither the fastest nor the most elegant way to talk to databases, but it is the best way we have. Here’s why Today, Structured Query Language is the standard means of manipulating and querying ...

Moving data from one source to another is not all that difficult in the scheme of things. If your source data is a tab-delimited file, for example, and you need it in an SQL relational database, you ...

Software that turns SQL commands written within a source program into the appropriate function calls for the database management system (DBMS) being used. After the SQL precompiler stage, the ...

SQL statements that are added to a high-level programming language such as C or Python. In a preprocessing stage, the SQL code is converted into function calls, which may be optimized to provide the ...

The DESCRIBE TABLE statement writes a CREATE TABLE statement to the SAS log for the table specified in the DESCRIBE TABLE statement, regardless of how the table was originally created (for example, ...