SQL Saturday #227 - Charleston
SQL Saturday is coming to Charleston, SC on October 12, 2013. SQL Saturday is a free training event for SQL Server professionals and those wanting to learn about SQL Server. Don't miss Charleston's first SQL Saturday.
SQL Saturday is coming to Charleston, SC on October 12, 2013. SQL Saturday is a free training event for SQL Server professionals and those wanting to learn about SQL Server. Don't miss Charleston's first SQL Saturday.
Learn about the distribution agent and how to identify replication bottlenecks.
Marcus Robinson adapted PowerShell scripts by Thomas Lee to build a set of VMs to run a course in a reliable and repeatable way. With Marcus’s permission, Andrew Fryer has put that Setup Script on SkyDrive, and provided notes on the script.
Writing secure programs is hard. Steve Jones has a few comments on what some of the issues are with training developers.
With SQL Server 2012, Microsoft introduced a new licensing model; licensing per core replaced the licensing per processor. We need to adjust budget to reflect licensing changes for our next Enterprise Agreement renewal, but we do not have processor core information from any of our server inventory tools. This tip explains how to quickly gather information about each server's processor cores without logging in to each server.
Join Red Gate on the day before PASS Summit for a full-day of free training from SQL Server MVPs and top presenters. Get $200 off your PASS conference ticket when you register for SQL in the City Charlotte, which takes place on Monday October 14.
The software industry is, just occasionally, more absurd than one would dare to imagine. Having spent most of his working life in its clutches, Phil Factor has pretty much "seen it all" and what's more he's prepared to tell what he knows. The second edition of Phil's "Confessions of an IT Manager" contains Phil's full repertoire of tales of institutional mayhem and software projects gone awry.
This article is part of the Data Mining introduction series. This article is about the Microsoft Association algorithm.
This article is part of the Data Mining introduction series. This article is about the Microsoft Association algorithm.
Are tape systems obsolete? A recent incident has Steve Jones thinking perhaps not.
If you've ever loaded a 2 GB CSV into pandas just to run a...
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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