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I have only limited exposure to both PostgreSQL and MySQL, but I have often wondered why MySQL is so popular while...
My latest article has just been published over at SQLTeam:
Implementing Table Interfaces
When I wrote a Table Inheritance article a few months back, the technique shown was pretty standard and straight-forward. As I was writing it, I thought it would be an interesting challenge to figure out a way to implement table interfaces as well, where different tables don't inherit from the same base class, but they still "implement" the same relations. That definitely was not as easy, and the end result isn't as clean and direct, but I hope this at least provides some ideas and at the very...
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The reason you were directed here is because you need assistance, and I am here to help. I am not, however, here to provide you with any answers! You see, it looks like the assistance you need is not finding an answer; it is rather that you need assistance finding a question.
As you know, there are all kinds of questions. Questions that test memory recall. Questions that test logic skills. Brain-teasers and mathematical questions and so on. But there is one requirement that all good questions must have in common before they can be answered:
A proper question MUST provide ALL...
Here's an obscure piece of SQL you may not be aware of: The "ALL" option when using a GROUP BY.
Consider the following table:
Create table Sales
(
SaleID int identity not null primary key,
CustomerID int,
ProductID int,
SaleDate datetime,
Qty int,
Amount money
)
insert into Sales (CustomerID, ProductID, SaleDate, Qty, Amount)
select 1,1,'2008-01-01',12,400 union all
select 1,2,'2008-02-25',6,2300 union all
select 1,1,'2008-03-02',23,610 union all
select 2,4,'2008-01-04',1,75 union all
select 2,2,'2008-02-18',52,5200 union all
select 3,2,'2008-03-09',99,2300 union all
select 3,1,'2008-04-19',3,4890 union all
select 3,1,'2008-04-21',74,2840
SaleID CustomerID ProductID SaleDate Qty Amount
----------- ----------- ----------- ----------------------- ----------- ---------------------
9 1 1 2008-01-01 00:00:00.000 12 400.00
10 1 2 2008-02-25 00:00:00.000 6 2300.00
11 1 1 2008-03-02 00:00:00.000 23 610.00
12 2 ...