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As a never ending twist and turns in my career, I have been asked to work on Sql queries ( only Select to populate data and copy in excel). I worked on it like 15 years back and never touched sql script. So any links or online resource to brush up my memory?
cheers,
Super
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As a never ending twist and turns in my career, I have been asked to work on Sql queries ( only Select to populate data and copy in excel). I worked on it like 15 years back and never touched sql script. So any links or online resource to brush up my memory?
cheers,
Super
------------------------------------------ Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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Eddy Vluggen wrote:
ome of us happen to like the SQL92 standard, as it is available for most databases. Makes your queries a bit more portable :)
yup, I'm one of those too, standard, portable, readable. ...in fact didn't know what LEAD and LAG was till OG mentioned it in this thread - had to google it, and 90% of my work involves SQL databases - a lot lately on FireBird 1.5 which is old, has almost no extensions, but it is SQL92, and that's all that matters.
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Lopatir wrote:
yup, I'm one of those too, standard, portable, readable.
Not as sexy as the cloud, but plain and boring - which is a good thing sometimes :)
Lopatir wrote:
it is SQL92, and that's all that matters
Not all, but most; if you're programming directly against a specific database-provider you'd still have a lot of database-specific code. If you program against the interfaces and you use SQL92, then changing the type of database should not be much of a problem. In that case, any database that has a database-provider in .NET and is SQL92-compliant will work. It's the difference between telling the customer that you use "database X, version Y" and telling the customer "any SQL92 DB you like or have".
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Eddy Vluggen wrote:
ome of us happen to like the SQL92 standard, as it is available for most databases. Makes your queries a bit more portable :)
yup, I'm one of those too, standard, portable, readable. ...in fact didn't know what LEAD and LAG was till OG mentioned it in this thread - had to google it, and 90% of my work involves SQL databases - a lot lately on FireBird 1.5 which is old, has almost no extensions, but it is SQL92, and that's all that matters.
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I don't worry too much about portable - I just make sure I develop using the same version of SQL as the target production system: so currently SQL 2012 SP1.
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I don't worry too much about portable - I just make sure I develop using the same version of SQL as the target production system: so currently SQL 2012 SP1.
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It is hardly a worry; but as good as MSSQL 2012 is, it still is a vendor lock in. Not a vendor that is likely to go bankrupt, but stranger things have happened. For using a bit less fewer new features, you get flexibility in return.
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It is hardly a worry; but as good as MSSQL 2012 is, it still is a vendor lock in. Not a vendor that is likely to go bankrupt, but stranger things have happened. For using a bit less fewer new features, you get flexibility in return.
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This is true, but ... even if MS went bust tomorrow, SQL server will keep on working - and there would be much more pressing matters than replacing it in a hurry! :laugh:
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As a never ending twist and turns in my career, I have been asked to work on Sql queries ( only Select to populate data and copy in excel). I worked on it like 15 years back and never touched sql script. So any links or online resource to brush up my memory?
cheers,
Super
------------------------------------------ Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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This is true, but ... even if MS went bust tomorrow, SQL server will keep on working - and there would be much more pressing matters than replacing it in a hurry! :laugh:
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it's not so much ms going bust as compared to if they keep doing what they do... they do have a history of changing the way things work, for instance ie, once upon a time css had to test for ff vs ie, but then ms upped the ante by changing their own difference, so then there were tests not only for ie, but which version of ie. What this means if you use their non standard features: you've put a bunch of code out to clients, along comes a new version of whatever you're using from ms, some clients upgrade, some don't - your code breaks in some places but not others. in fact it'd almost be a good thing if ms went bust, at least they would no longer be changing stuff depending on which way nads farts are blowing, including still breaking their own staff regardless it works or not.
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As a never ending twist and turns in my career, I have been asked to work on Sql queries ( only Select to populate data and copy in excel). I worked on it like 15 years back and never touched sql script. So any links or online resource to brush up my memory?
cheers,
Super
------------------------------------------ Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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As a never ending twist and turns in my career, I have been asked to work on Sql queries ( only Select to populate data and copy in excel). I worked on it like 15 years back and never touched sql script. So any links or online resource to brush up my memory?
cheers,
Super
------------------------------------------ Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
In general SQL Server Central [^] no matter what your expertise / level. They have a log of good 'stairways' you can start with the Stairway to T-SQL DML – a SQL Server tutorial[^] DML == Data Manipulation Language (the aspect of the language dealing with the data: SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE) I'd recommend you review all of DML, not just select... but that's my opinion. HTH, -Chris C.
