This should be a quickie.<BR><BR>I need to write a query that has to run in a tight loop in my application, so I want to make it efficient.<BR><BR>Is there any significant difference in efficiency ...

clauses IN and EXISTS are interchangeable. However, they’re quite different in how they handle NULL values and may give different results. The problem comes from the fact that, in an Oracle database, ...

Custom proximity search is a new feature introduced in SQL Server 2012 Full-Text Search. It's facilitated using the NEAR operator, allowing it to be used in the CONTAINS predicate or CONTAINSTABLE ...