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The magic way to get better performance from your system is to write better code from the start.
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Formatting Dates and Times: The SQL Dialect Divide
If you’ve ever had to format dates and times in SQL, you’ve probably come across one of the most jarring realities of working across platforms: every major RDBMS does it differently and sometimes confusingly. What’s a TO_CHAR() in Oracle becomes FORMAT() or CONVERT() in SQL Server, and its sort of the same in PostgreSQL… but […]
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SQL Identity Column Gaps and Conversion in SQL Server, Oracle and PostgreSQL
Learn about identity column sequence gaps and changing an existing column to an identity column in SQL Server, Oracle and PostgreSQL.
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SQL String functions in SQL Server, Oracle and PostgreSQL
In this article we look at how to use string functions to concatenate, replace, trim and get substrings in SQL Server, Oracle and PostgreSQL.
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Delete SQL Statement in SQL Server, Oracle and PostgreSQL
Learn about the differences and similarities when deleting data from SQL Server, Oracle and PostgreSQL with the several examples in this article.
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SQL Update Statement with Join in SQL Server vs Oracle vs PostgreSQL
In this article we look at the different SQL syntax you need to use when updating data when joining tables for SQL Server, Oracle and PostgreSQL.
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Multi-Platform Mobile Development with PhoneGap
Of course it seems a great idea to have your application on all the main mobile platforms as well as on the desktop. However, as Arkadiusz Pachucy knows all too well, this can ultimately leave you with a full-scale maintenance nightmare. In this article he looks at whether technologies like PhoneGap/Cordova or Adobe Air could be the perfect compromise - and if so, what frameworks to use.
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Creating a JSON Document IV
I have this data in a table called dbo.NFLTeams
TeamID TeamName City YearEstablished ------ -------- ---- --------------- 1 Cowboys Dallas 1960 2 Eagles Philadelphia 1933 3 Packers Green Bay 1919 4 Chiefs Kansas City 1960 5 49ers San Francisco 1946 6 Broncos Denver 1960 7 Seahawks Seattle 1976 8 Patriots New England 1960If I run this code, how many rows are returned?
SELECT YearEstablished, json_objectagg(city : TeamName) FROM dbo.NFLTeams GROUP BY YearEstablished;See possible answers