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Get the Range of Data You Really WantLet's say you have a table that contains the monthly figures for your army of sales people. At the end of every month, the sales manager asks you to pull a list of...
View ArticleJOIN the Dark Side
When you've been playing around with SQL for awhile, you start to take your knowledge of JOINs for granted. When someone asks you about JOINing data from two or more tables together, you get this...
View ArticleOh, Joy! More JOINs!
JOINing Tables in INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE Queries In our last SQL post, we talked about the three basic types of JOINs enterprising young SQL junkies might use to gather data from different tables...
View ArticleEnd-of-Life for PostgreSQL 8.0 on Windows
Woke up this morning to find a message in my inbox from the PostgreSQL pgsql-announce listserv with the subject "PostgreSQL 8.0, 8.1 on Windows End-of-Life." Pretty self-explanatory.According to the...
View ArticleComing Attractions
DBAs meet and Portland IgnitesCouple of events going down in the Portland area over the next week or two that all the cool kids are going to attend (i.e. me and any other nerds who can sneak past their...
View ArticleOpen Source Bridge Proposal Deadline Coming
Look, I know this isn't our normal type of post. No code snippets, no real world examples, etc. Barely even a trace of wit and/or style.Ok, maybe the lack of style thing really is in keeping with our...
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