Month: December 2022

With SQL Server, you’ll find that, quite often, when dealing with strings, you’re almost stuck using the like operator to check if items are “like” another string. I don’t know how many times I’ve done something like the following: SELECT * FROM dbo.TableName WHERE Field LIKE ‘%Name%’; Hopefully, many of you get the gist of…… Continue reading I like Snowflake More and More

Sometimes you think you have something down. With years of SQL Server experience, you would think you’d know at least the basics of the SELECT statement no matter the relational database. Well, my friends, you’d be wrong. With Snowflake, we could do many different things that we’re not used to seeing with a SELECT statement.…… Continue reading SELECT Something New in Snowflake

With our last blog post, we started discussing Snowflake and the SELECT statement. Now, if you remember, there is this great thing called a semi-colon. The main reason you should use the semicolon is to terminate all of your queries. Snowflake does this great thing by default, letting you run one query at a time.…… Continue reading Making the SELECT work in Snowflake