5 Powerful SQL Fundamentals to Boost Your Database Skills and Efficiency

SQL Fundamentals series acquaints you with a few basic SQL operations that facilitate the process of querying and interacting with databases

We plan to cover the following crucial topics in this SQL Fundamentals: SQL Wildcard Characters, SQL Comments, SQL Auto Increment, Cursors in SQL, and how to get the current date and time in SQL

SQL Wildcard characters are used in LIKE queries to help match patterns in text-based data

SQL Comments give developers the ability to add notes to their queries, which help others (or even themselves) to grasp the code

A Cursor in SQL is a database object through which rows can be intercepted, manipulated, and navigated through the result set obtained from a query