Learning to Search
Today Steve Jones notes that the ability to search if invaluable as the amount of information, or even objects, we deal with grows.
Today Steve Jones notes that the ability to search if invaluable as the amount of information, or even objects, we deal with grows.
A guide to using databases, schemas and tables in Azure Data Lakes, using (of course!) U-SQL.
Greg Larsen expands on his topic of how to modify an existing table to take advantage of the new temporal data feature in SQL Server 2016. In this article he shows you how to create and deleted system-versioned tables and the associated history temporal table.
Releasing software is stressful, and as Steve Jones notes today, can cause bankruptcy if you don't have a solid process.
In this article, we will compare a traditional SQL Server Enterprise Edition with an Azure SQL Database and see the differences.
What do you get for your Support & Upgrades package? Read this blog post to learn about the new functionality and improvements Redgate is releasing this year. Find out more.
Rob Farley digs deeper into seeks and actual rows read, demonstrating a case where you want a non-sargable expression in the WHERE clause.
Today Steve Jones wonders why we don't unit test more, especially for databases.
Information Technology is fast-changing, but the people who work in IT need to have a good chance of a long-term career. That means keeping up to date, not only in their current speciality, but in the wider sphere of the technology they work with. IT managers must make sure that keeping up to date with technology is part of the day to day activity of their people. How should they make sure it happens?
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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