One of the coolest things about using and making jOOQ is that we get to discover the best extensions to the standard SQL language by vendors, and add support for those clauses in jOOQ via emulations. One of these syntaxes is BigQuery's * EXCEPT syntax. Everyone who ever wrote ad-hoc SQL queries would have liked … Continue reading The Useful BigQuery * EXCEPT Syntax
Tag: NATURAL JOIN
Use NATURAL FULL JOIN to compare two tables in SQL
There are a few ways to compare two similar tables in SQL. Assuming PostgreSQL syntax, we might have this schema: CREATE TABLE t1 (a INT, b INT, c INT); CREATE TABLE t2 (a INT, b INT, c INT); INSERT INTO t1 VALUES (1, 2, 3), (4, 5, 6), (7, 8, 9); INSERT INTO t2 VALUES … Continue reading Use NATURAL FULL JOIN to compare two tables in SQL
Impress Your Coworkers With the Incredible NATURAL FULL OUTER JOIN!
There are already only very few real-world use-cases for FULL [ OUTER ] JOIN, but maybe, you have run into this beast in the past. But when was the last time you've seen a NATURAL JOIN? Right. A quick reminder from our article about JOINs: FULL JOIN A FULL JOIN is a type of OUTER … Continue reading Impress Your Coworkers With the Incredible NATURAL FULL OUTER JOIN!
A Probably Incomplete, Comprehensive Guide to the Many Different Ways to JOIN Tables in SQL
Perhaps the most powerful SQL feature is the JOIN operation. It is the envy of all non-relational databases, because the concept is so simple, yet so universally applicable, when you want to "combine" two data sets. Put simply, when joining two tables, you're combining every row from one table with every row from another table, … Continue reading A Probably Incomplete, Comprehensive Guide to the Many Different Ways to JOIN Tables in SQL