Accepts a select query as a string input Converts query into a dict of 'simple' select queries, linked to each other through 'from' statements. A 'simple' select query is a select query without any ...
Let's follow up the last column with a step-by-step breakdown shows how the PowerShell script automates SQL Server backups, ...
Learn how to master the SELECT statement to form truly useful data queries. This article explains functions, clauses, and keywords that will make your life a lot easier. Due to popular demand, we’re ...
A few days ago I was tagged on a thread on Twitter: my old pal Mim was upset to find that he couldn’t use a SQL query with a Common Table Expression as the source of a table in DirectQuery mode. He ...
Here’s something that will Blow Your Mind if you’re a Power Query/M fan. Did you know that there’s a way you can get query folding to work if you’re using a native SQL query on SQL Server or Postgres ...
Here's a look at different ways to query Hadoop via SQL, some of which are part of the latest edition of MapR's Hadoop distribution SQL: old and busted. Hadoop: new hotness. That’s the conventional ...
Well, if you happen to be using Sql Server you can do that sort of thing in T-Sql. In Oracle, you can also accomplish the same thing using pl/sql. Either way i'd do it in a stored ...