You could also add the row in the SQL query. SELECT MAX (TimeStamp) TimeStamp, COUNT (*) RowCount FROM ... And check RowCount first. Second suggestion worked! The first suggesiton didn't work because ...

SQL is neither the fastest nor the most elegant way to talk to databases, but it is the best way we have. Here’s why Today, Structured Query Language is the standard means of manipulating and querying ...

Well, if you happen to be using Sql Server you can do that sort of thing in T-Sql. In Oracle, you can also accomplish the same thing using pl/sql. Either way i'd do it in a stored ...

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