Tony Patton discusses the merits of stored procedures versus placing SQL directly in the code. Find out which one is best for your particular situation.

You can use the prompt facility to display a prompt window when non-SELECT SQL statements are submitted. See Using the Prompt Facility for more information. Non-SELECT SQL statements can be saved to ...

Applications that use the Jakarta Persistence API shouldn’t embed too much raw SQL in their code. However, when you need an SQL query for performance reasons or to access the database in a way that ...

If you omit the CONNECT statement, an implicit connection is performed (by using default values for all database connection arguments) when the first EXECUTE statement is passed to the DBMS. See your ...