2022-12-12
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Poking the Bear
If you're an experienced, knowledgeable, seasoned (I won't say old), SQL Server data professional, and you choose to use Trace Events (Profiler), more power to you. That's it. That's all I have to say. Do what you think best. I'm never, ever (again), going to second guess you. Further, my apologies for ever having done […]
2022-12-10
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2022-12-09
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2022-12-09
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Data Activity Tracking Using SQL Triggers
This article goes into a framework for tracking data manipulation activity using a few triggers.
2022-12-09
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How to Use Any SQL Database in GO with GORM
ORMs (Object Relational Mappers) are tools (libraries, modules, packages) that provide the functionality for interacting with SQL databases. This article will look at how to use any SQL Database in GO with GORM.
2022-12-07
2022-12-07
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2022-12-05
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Making the World Better
Steve reminds us about being charitable if we are fortunate enough to do so.
2022-12-03
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A Real-world Implementation of Database DevOps: People, Processes, Tools
This series of articles describes a path you can take to transforming an existing, manual and error-prone database development and release process into an automated and reliable Database DevOps 'pipeline', starting here with an overview of what we set out to achieve, and the people, processes and tools involved.
2022-12-02
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Question of the Day
The string_agg function
We create the following table and then insert some records in it:
create table t1 ( id int primary key, category char(1) not null, product varchar(50) ); insert into t1 values (1, 'A', 'Product 1'), (2, 'A', 'Product 2'), (3, 'A', 'Product 3'), (4, 'B', 'Product 4'), (5, 'B', 'Product 5');What happens if we execute the following query in both Sql Server and PostgreSQL?
select id,
category,
string_agg(product, ';')
over (partition by category order by id
rows between unbounded preceding and unbounded following) as stragg
from t1; See possible answers