Jacks of all trades
Instagram has a complex architecture for it's technology infrastructure. The people that work there have to be jacks of all trades. Is that the type of environment you'd like to work in?
Instagram has a complex architecture for it's technology infrastructure. The people that work there have to be jacks of all trades. Is that the type of environment you'd like to work in?
Learn to simplify date logic using date tables and recursion in T-SQL with this article from David Beardsley.
A table that does not have a clustered index is referred to as a Heap. While a lot has been written about index fragmentation and how to defrag indexes, there is not much that talks about how to defrag a heap table.
It's easy to create a database nowadays with point-'n-click, but if you've left your database's autogrowth settings at their default, you may hit problems in the future. Why? What do I do about it? Read on!
Voting is now open to choose the sessions you would like to see at the SQLBits Community Day on 31st March, 2012.
This article demonstrates basic C# code that will enable SSIS package developers to write useful custom SSIS script tasks.
With the amount of data being stored expanding exponentially, does the role of the DBA need to change from caretaker to interpreter?
Encryption is supposed to protect data, and it appears to be working as police and authorities are often stymied by encrypted disks. Steve Jones recommends you encrypt your disks on all your machines.
Your task is to process the input table that contains several mangled words and try to 'un-mangle' them and validate them against a 'dictionary' table.
If you've ever loaded a 2 GB CSV into pandas just to run a...
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Recently I ran across some code that used a lot of QUOTENAME() calls. A...
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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