I stumbled upon a very interesting question on Stack Overflow about how to use jOOQ's MULTISET operator to nest a collection, and then filter the result by whether that nested collection contains a value. The question is jOOQ specific, but imagine, you have a query that nests collections using JSON in PostgreSQL. Assuming, as always, … Continue reading How to Filter a SQL Nested Collection by a Value
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Use MULTISET Predicates to Compare Data Sets
Questions that might be a bit more difficult to solve using ordinary SQL are questions of the kind: What films have the same actors as a given film X? As always, we're using the sakila database for this example. What would be a possible way to solve this with SQL (for example, PostgreSQL, to be … Continue reading Use MULTISET Predicates to Compare Data Sets