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Featured Article(s) MySQL Basic SQL Part III the WHERE clause The optional WHERE clause, simply stated, imposes search criteria or a filter on top of a SELECT statementgiving the ability to conditionally select only those rows from a table you are interested in displaying. Let’s dive in! Twitter… and SQL Server? I noticed this reference on some monitors – it’s […]

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Featured Article(s) Creating Dynamic Where Clauses in SQL One very common scenario in when working with User Interface database queries is the concept of a "Dynamic Search Query". A select statement that can have optional items in the where clause. There are a number of methods to implement this, however, they have varying levels of difficulty and, overall each have […]

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