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In the meantime, the big question for data leaders is where to implement this logic. The market has split into two ...

I have a need to handle errors in SQL scripts that i'm working with.<BR><BR>Frequently these errors contain syntax problems and other things like create/drop constraints, not exist..

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Every professional programmer (and DBA) should have a library of books on SQL fundamentals. There are many SQL titles to choose from, and a lot of them are very good. But this month's column will ...

Read this SQL tutorial to learn when to use SELECT, JOIN, subselects and UNION to access multiple tables with a single statement. It’s sometimes difficult to know which SQL syntax to use when ...

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Unless a "neutral" third party publishes them, we tend to view benchmarks as self-serving exercises that vendors typically stack in their own favor. But recent benchmarks issued by Cloudera and ...

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