VIEWs, derived tables, materialized tables and temporary tables are ways of putting a query into a named schema object. By that, I mean they hold the query, rather than the results of the query. The ...

A table is a storage architecture model that stores your data in an organized way (in rows and columns) in a database. Although tables in SQL databases typically contain massive amounts of data, ...

I need to select some data (surprise) from several tables in a linked database which is running SQL Server 2000.<BR><BR>Now the resulting data set will be about 10,000 records taken from ~ 8 ...

So let us say we have a query that touches some 50 tables. --lots of joins to other things like Orders, Sales Price, Sales Agents, etc... which have conditional criteria. This will in the end return 2 ...