Mid September Free Training from PASS
There's going to be over 30 hours of free online SQL Server training in the upcoming week and you're not going to want to miss out!
There's going to be over 30 hours of free online SQL Server training in the upcoming week and you're not going to want to miss out!
Learn the top 10 best practices for large scale SSIS packages from a real world DBA.
SQL Server transaction log files have an internal structure called the Virtual Log File or VLF. When the number of VLFs grow out of control due to autogrowth the log can become fragmented and cause delay. In this tip we look at how to see how many VLFs exist as well as how this can be reduced to a more reasonable number.
A free one day training event in Raleigh, NC. Come to the first SQL Saturday in this city on Sept 18, 2010
This Friday Steve Jones is looking for the instrumentation or monitoring that you build into your applications.
Cartesian Products usually don't provide useful information and often result in mistakes that can hurt your database developer career. Learn to spot Cartesian Joins and banish them from your SELECT queries forever.
SQL Saturday Columbia, SC gives you a chance to get a full day of free SQL Server information, lectures, and seminars from the experts on the East Coast.
A reminder today that there are people that enjoy their jobs. Steve Jones reminds us that we should take jobs based on that criteria.
How does the query optimizer build an execution plan for your queries? Paul White shows is in part two of a four-part series exploring the internals of query optimization.
If you've ever loaded a 2 GB CSV into pandas just to run a...
By James Serra
What problem is Fabric Ontology trying to solve? For years, most data conversations have...
By Steve Jones
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