Software Vendor Security
This week Steve Jones finds some issues with the security of third party vendor software.
This week Steve Jones finds some issues with the security of third party vendor software.
It's important to have time to think, but quite often we don't find the time. Steve Jones comments on how he's learned just how valuable this can be.
There are some good reasons to think about attending the 2010 PASS Community Summit.
This challenge has a (fake) reference to the 24 Hours of PASS event and your task is to count the number of attendees who watched the complete presentation of each speaker.
If you are not keen on repetitive typing, you can still rapidly produce production-quality documented code by planning ahead and using Extended properties, and system views. Phil Factor explains, with some Scary SQL
Determining which columns to index in a table used to be a very time consuming process that was as much art as science. New author Ranga Narasimhan brings us an article that shows how SQL Server 2005 makes this much easier.
ROWE stands for a Results Oriented Work Environment. This Friday Steve Jones asks if you'd like to work in one.
In a recent thread here on SQL Server Central, it was pointed out that a member of the securityadmin fixed...
We soon learn, in SQL Server, that heaps are a bad thing, without necessarily understanding how or why. Jonathan Lewis is an Oracle expert who doesn't like to take such strictures for granted, especially when they don't apply to Oracle. Jonathan discovers much about how SQL Server places data, and concludes from his experiments that heaps perform badly in SQL Server because you cannot specify a fill factor for them.
Is self service BI a good idea? Some people think so, others don't. Steve Jones talks about one of the issues and why it might actually not be a problem.
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