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SQL GROUP BY and Functional Dependencies: A Very Useful Feature
Relational databases define the term āFunctional Dependencyā as such (from Wikipedia): In relational database theory, a functional dependency is a…
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How to Find the Longest Consecutive Series of Events in SQL
A very interesting problem that can be solved very easily with SQL is to find consecutive series of events in…
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NoSQL vs. SQL: Choosing a Data Management Solution
Table Of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Distributed systems: the CAP theorem 3. Relational data stores 3.1. MySQL / MariaDB 3.2.…
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How to Find the Closest Subset Sum with SQL
Iāve stumbled upon this very interesting question on Stack Overflow, recently. Its title is: [How to] compare a number with…
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Leveraging new features in Drill 1.2 – ANSI SQL Analytic/Window functions
Today we are very excited to announce the latest version of Apache Drill, 1.2,) as part of the MapR distribution.…
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jOOQ Tuesdays: Markus Winand is on a Modern SQL Mission
Welcome to the jOOQ Tuesdays series. In this series, weāll publish an article on the third Tuesday every other month…
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The 10 Most Popular DB Engines (SQL and NoSQL) in 2015
About two years ago, weāve published this post about the 10 most popular DB engines, where we analyzed the data…
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You Probably donāt Use SQL INTERSECT or EXCEPT Often Enough
When people talk about SQL JOIN, they often use Venn Diagrams to illustrate inclusion and exclusion of the two joined…
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Donāt Format Dates in SQL. Use the DATE Literal!
Iām seeing people do this all the time. They want to hammer a date or timestamp constant into their SQL…
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