Most relational databases don't provide an easy way to create crosstabs. Rob Gravelle shows you one of several ways to create crosstabs using regular SQL.
The CTE was introduced into standard SQL in order to simplify various classes of SQL Queries for which a derived table just wasn't suitable. For some reason, it can be difficult to grasp the techniques of using it. Well, that's before Rob Sheldon explained it all so clearly for us.
Introduction I am interviewing 2011 PASS Board Nominee Applicants. As listed on the PASS Board Elections site the applicants are: Rob Farley Geoff Hiten Adam Jorgensen Denise McInerney Sri Sridharan Kendal Van Dyke I'm asking everyone the same questions and blogging the responses in the order received. Geoff Hiten is next up: Interview With Geoff…
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Introduction I am interviewing 2011 PASS Board Nominee Applicants. As listed on the PASS Board Elections site the applicants are: Rob Farley Geoff Hiten Adam Jorgensen Denise McInerney Sri Sridharan Kendal Van Dyke I'm asking everyone the same questions and blogging the responses in the order received. Denise McInerney is next up: Interview…
Key Performance Indicators, which vary according to the application, are widely used as a measure of the performance of parts of an organisation. Analysis Services makes this KPI data easily available to your cube. All you have to do is to follow Rob Sheldon's simple instructions.
The results you get out of any performance prediction exercise are bound to be wrong. The goal is to make them as least wrong as possible. Rob Bogue will help you understand how to avoid getting them too wrong.
The results you get out of any performance prediction exercise are bound to be wrong. The goal is to make them as least wrong as possible. Rob Bogue will help you understand how to avoid getting them too wrong.
Please listen to our newly recorded series of four podcasts focused on SPARC. The topics are:
How SPARC T4 Servers Open New Opportunities
SPARC Roadmap and SPARC T4 Architecture Highlights
SPARC T4 For Installed Base Refresh and Consolidation
SPARC T4 – How Does it Stack up Against the Competition?
Rob…
MySQL's crosstabs contain aggregate functions on two or more fields, presented in a tabular format. In a multi-aggregate crosstab query, two different functions can be applied to the same field or the same function can be applied to multiple fields on the same (row or column) axis. Rob Gravelle shows you how to apply two different…
MySQL's crosstabs contain aggregate functions on two or more fields, presented in a tabular format. In a multi-aggregate crosstab query, two different functions can be applied to the same field or the same function can be applied to multiple fields on the same (row or column) axis. Rob Gravelle shows you how to apply two different…
In case you haven't noticed, Data Education (the training company I started a couple of years ago) has expanded beyond the US northeast; we're currently offering courses with top trainers in both St. Louis and Chicago , as well as the Boston area. The courses are starting to fill up fast—not surprising when you consider we’re…
In this level, Rob Sheldon explains what XML is, and describes the components of an XML document, Elements and Attributes. He explains the basics of tags, entity references, enclosed text, comments and declarations
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Good morning! It's Day 2 of the PASS Summit 2013 and it should be a busy one. Douglas McDowell, EVP Finance of PASS opened up the keynote to welcome people and talked about the financial status of the organization. Last year's Business Analytics Conference left the organization $100,000 ahead, and he went on to show the…
Join the webcast on Tuesday July 10, 2012 at 3PM CET (2pm GMT)
The webcast will be hosted by - Rob Ludeman, from SPARC Product Management, and Thomas Ressler, WWA&C Alliances Consultant.
Agenda: To
bring you and your partners timely, valuable information,to increase success in selling SPARC systems. The…
The continuing drop in the price of memory has made fast in-memory OLTP increasingly viable. SQL Server 2014 allows you to migrate the most-used tables in an existing database to memory-optimised 'Hekaton' technology, but how you balance between disk tables and in-memory tables for optimum performance requires…
Rob Gravelle demonstrates a solution for passing MySQL dynamic field names to the group_concat function using a combination of stored proc input parameters, string concatenation, and prepared statements.
Rob Gravelle demonstrates a solution for passing MySQL dynamic field names to the group_concat function using a combination of stored proc input parameters, string concatenation, and prepared statements.
Si l'évènement SpringOne 2GX Europe n'a pas été renouvelé cette année, son équivalent US est annoncé par SpringSource.
Cette série de conférence organisée par SpringSource et No Fluff Just Stuff aura lieu cette année à Chicago du 19 au 22 Octobre.
Comme l'an passé, les sujets seront regroupés autours de deux…
The UNION, EXCEPT and INTERSECT operators of SQL enable you to combine more than one SELECT statement to form a single result set. Rob Sheldon explains all, with plenty of examples.
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This T-SQL Tuesday is about a person that helped you understand SQL Server. It's not a stretch to say that it's people that help you get to where you are in life, and Rob Volk ( @sql_r ) is sponsoring this month's T-SQL Tuesday asking who is that person that helped you get there. Over the years, there've been a…
With SSIS, it is possible to implement looping logic into SSIS's control flow in order to define a repeating workflow in a package for each member of a collection of objects. Rob Sheldon explains how to use this valuable feature of SSIS.
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here is a lot that can be done to make basic tabular reports more readable, using Microsoft's free Report Builder. Rob Sheldon continues his exploration of the power of this tool by showing how to format various elements within reports.
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Google I/O 2012 - Meet the Go Team
Andrew Gerrand , Rob Pike The Go programming language is an open source project to make programmers more productive. Go is expressive, concise, clean, and efficient. It's a fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a dynamically typed, interpreted language.…