Occasionally, you want to write a SQL query and fetch a hierarchy of data, whose flat representation may look like this: SELECT id, parent_id, label FROM t_directory; The result might be: |id |parent_id|label | |---|---------|-------------------| |1 | |C: | |2 |1 |eclipse | |3 |2 |configuration | |4 |2 |dropins | |5 |2 |features | … Continue reading How to Turn a List of Flat Elements into a Hierarchy in Java, SQL, or jOOQ
Tag: Recursive SQL
Finding all Palindromes Contained in Strings with SQL
SQL is a really cool language. I can write really complex business logic with this logic programming language. I was again thrilled about SQL recently, at a customer site: https://twitter.com/lukaseder/status/899626552597590016 But whenever I tweet something like the above, the inevitable happened. I was nerd sniped. Oleg Šelajev from ZeroTurnaround challenged me to prove that SQL … Continue reading Finding all Palindromes Contained in Strings with SQL
jOOQ 3.10 Supports Exciting MySQL 8.0 Features
In recent months, there had been some really exciting news from the MySQL team: (Recursive) Common Table Expressions in MySQL Introducing Window Functions These two SQL standard language features are among the most powerful SQL features that are available from most other databases. I frequently include them in conference talks about SQL (see my article … Continue reading jOOQ 3.10 Supports Exciting MySQL 8.0 Features
10 SQL Tricks That You Didn’t Think Were Possible
Listicles like these do work - not only do they attract attention, if the content is also valuable (and in this case it is, trust me), the article format can be extremely entertaining. This article will bring you 10 SQL tricks that many of you might not have thought were possible. The article is a … Continue reading 10 SQL Tricks That You Didn’t Think Were Possible
How to Find the Closest Subset Sum with SQL
I've stumbled upon this very interesting question on Stack Overflow, recently. Its title is: [How to] compare a number with sum of subset of numbers In this article, we'll compare the user's imperative approach to the extremely elegant (Oracle) SQL approach. We'll be making use of any combination of these awesome SQL features: Window functions … Continue reading How to Find the Closest Subset Sum with SQL
All You Ever Need to Know About Recursive SQL
Oracle SYNONYMs are a great feature. You can implement all sorts of backwards-compatibility tweaks simply by creating SYNONYMs in your database. Consider the following schema: CREATE TABLE my_table (col NUMBER(7)); CREATE SYNONYM my_table_old FOR my_table; CREATE SYNONYM my_table_bak FOR my_table_old; Now you can query your same old table through three different names, it'll all result … Continue reading All You Ever Need to Know About Recursive SQL
Recursive SQL for Data Normalisation
Recursive SQL can be awesome, although a bit hard to read in its SQL standard beauty. Let's assume you have some aggregated data with dates and a number of events per date: | DATE | COUNT | |--------------------------------|-------| | October, 01 2013 00:00:00+0000 | 2 | | October, 02 2013 00:00:00+0000 | 1 | | … Continue reading Recursive SQL for Data Normalisation