If your business uses relational databases to store data, you may have used a SQL SELECT clause to create new tables from query results. This method won't work in SQL Server, but Microsoft's Trans ...

The CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE AS SELECT statement always creates a nonpartitioned table, even if the source table is partitioned. For [!INCLUDE sssql22-md], the option allow polybase export must be ...

To create an external file format, use CREATE EXTERNAL FILE FORMAT (Transact-SQL). REJECT options don't apply at the time this CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE AS SELECT statement is run. Instead, they're ...

SQL lets you use one command to quickly create a new table containing a subset of records from a larger table while working in Access. Sound complicated? It's not, as Mary Ann Richardson shows us.