My problem is all attempts to exclude data listed in the info table have met w/ failure. My problem is further complicated as it takes almost 2 hours to complete a search (if it doesn't time out first ...

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 ...

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 ...