Nov 8, 2013 · <> operator means not equal to in MS SQL. It compares two expressions (a comparison operator). When you compare nonnull expressions, the result is TRUE if the left operand is not equal to the right operand; otherwise, the result is FALSE. If either or both operands are NULL, see the topic SET ANSI_NULLS (Transact-SQL). See here : Not Equal To

Jul 30, 2012 · The @CustID means it's a parameter that you will supply a value for later in your code. This is the best way of protecting against SQL injection. Create your query using parameters, rather than concatenating strings and variables. The database engine puts the parameter value into where the placeholder is, and there is zero chance for SQL injection.

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Oct 9, 2014 · <> is Standard SQL-92; != is its equivalent. Both evaluate for values, which NULL is not -- NULL is a placeholder to say there is the absence of a value. Which is why you can only use IS NULL/IS NOT NULL as predicates for such situations. This behavior is not specific to SQL Server. All standards-compliant SQL dialects work the same way.

Apr 6, 2009 · Yes; Microsoft themselves recommend using <> over != specifically for ANSI compliance, e.g. in Microsoft Press training kit for 70-461 exam, "Querying Microsoft SQL Server", they say "As an example of when to choose the standard form, T-SQL supports two “not equal to” operators: <> and !=. The former is standard and the latter is not.

Feb 12, 2009 · Using "=" is a tiny bit faster in this case (searching for an exact match) - you can check this yourself by having the same query twice in SQL Server Management Studio, once using "=", once using "LIKE", and then using the "Query" / "Include actual execution plan".

May 18, 2007 · In order to filter the student records that have a 10 grade in Math, we can use the EXISTS SQL operator, like this: SELECT id, first_name, last_name FROM student WHERE EXISTS ( SELECT 1 FROM student_grade WHERE student_grade.student_id = student.id AND student_grade.grade = 10 AND student_grade.class_name = 'Math' ) ORDER BY id

I need to run a select statement that returns all rows where the value of a column is not distinct (e.g. EmailAddress). For example, if the table looks like below: CustomerName EmailAddress A...

May 17, 2011 · sql> Oracle SQL allows us to ignore the case of database object names provided we either create them with names all in upper case, or without using double quotes. If we use mixed case or lower case in the script and wrapped the identifiers in double quotes we are condemned to using double quotes and the precise case whenever we refer to the ...

Jul 23, 2012 · SQL Logic Operator Precedence: And and Or. Related. 1. SQL WHERE AND & OR Clauses. 0. Using SQL Where ...