Shelley Doll finishes her coverage of SQL data types with an overview of datetime and interval data types. Learn more about the basic syntax of these standard SQL types.

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Time series databases provide optimum support for working with time-dependent data. This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data ...

In Part 2 of this article, I present the source code for a Visual Basic program to generate a SQL script to efficiently delete all data from a database according to the current configuration and ...

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