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Script to determine if all chars are same in field

This script is a fix to the "Script to determine if all chars are same in field"posted by Harvard Kinkead (hneal_98) . That script doesn't handle strings with trailing spaces (e.g. set @repeat = 'bbbb ')It happens because of the nature of Len function. To bypass this limitation my script concatenates one character to tested […]

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2003-05-29

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Table Pivoting revisited

A lot of table pivoting scripts use cursors to reach the  desired results, but SQL scripting was developed to be utilized in a data set environment rather than sequential step-thru scripting.Normally, there are 3 types of Table Pivoting - 1) column explicit 2) column implicit and 3)single column.  COLUMN EXPLICIT will place the row value […]

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2003-05-29

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Find Duplicate Indexes - Episode 1 (The Early SQL Versions)

The excellent script contributed by G.R. Preethiviraj Kulasingham (Preethi) Sri Lanka (contributed 2/20/03, modified 5/22/03) identifies duplicate indexes for the database on which the script is run.  It requires User Defined Functions, a feature restricted to SQL Server 2000.This version achieves similar results without using UDFs or creating any other permanent objects. It therefore works […]

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2003-05-28

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The string_agg function

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;

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