Sometimes when aggregating data with SQL, we'd love to add some additional filters. For instance, consider the following world bank data: GDP per capita (current US$) 2009 2010 2011 2012 CA 40,764 47,465 51,791 52,409 DE 40,270 40,408 44,355 42,598 FR 40,488 39,448 42,578 39,759 GB 35,455 36,573 38,927 38,649 IT 35,724 34,673 36,988 33,814 … Continue reading The Awesome PostgreSQL 9.4 / SQL:2003 FILTER Clause for Aggregate Functions
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Publicly available SQL standard documents
For your reference, here is a list of publicly available SQL standard documents. Some are very late draft versions, where the final version is closed source and has to be purchased from ISO or ANSI directly: SQL-92 http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~shadow/sql/sql1992.txt SQL:1999 http://web.cs.ualberta.ca/~yuan/courses/db_readings/ansi-iso-9075-2-1999.pdf SQL:2003 http://www.wiscorp.com/sql_2003_standard.zip SQL:2008 (preliminary) http://www.wiscorp.com/sql200n.zip The links were taken from here: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Developer_FAQ
Subtle SQL differences: IDENTITY columns
As I'm mostly using Oracle, IDENTITY columns were not so important to me up until I started to support them in jOOQ. Then, I found that yet again, there are many differences between various databases in how they handle IDENTITY columns in DDL and in DML. In SQL, there are essentially three orthogonal concepts of … Continue reading Subtle SQL differences: IDENTITY columns