Tuples in SQL relations can have NULL as a value for one or more components. Meaning depends on context. Two common cases: Missing value: e.g., we know Joe’s Bar has some address, but we don’t know what it is.
This query works in SQL Server. In MySQL and PostgreSQL, we need to add the word RECURSIVE after the WITH keyword. This will work in MySQL 8.0 when the WITH clause was introduced, but not in earlier versions. You can also use the HierarchyID data type in SQL Server when working with hi...
Building a customized data dictionary is labor-intensive, but the most time-consuming steps are not designing, architecting, and implementing code but collecting details needed to realize business meaning within this metadata. The first step in this process is to build a table to stor...
Like the database design itself, some careful thought should be put into the table name, trying to pin down the precise meaning of the data it contains. Much the same could be said of column names. Table names and column names tend to be referenced frequently in queries, so there is ...
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Meaning Maximum length n ABAP type DEC Calculation/amount field 1-31, 1-17 in tables P((n+1)/2) INT1 Single-byte integer 3 Internal only INT2 Two-byte integer 5 Internal only INT4 Four-byte integer 10 I CURR Currency field 1-17 P((n+1)/2) CUKY Currency key 5 C(5) QUAN Amo...
Because we’ve separated the compute nodes containing the query engine from the storage, they’re effectively stateless, meaning you can lose a compute node without endangering any data at all. It also means that you can scale the compute resources up or down without moving any data,...
Data Types in a database system allow not only a convenient method of defining the field in a table, or to enforce integrity in the system. Sometimes data types carry a meaning by their structure — and that's the case with SQL Server spatial data. ...
Exact Numbers with decimal places include the Data Types Decimal, Numeric, Money, and SmallMoney. The types Decimal and Numeric are functionally the same thing. Meaning, they will work, calculate and behave identically, the only difference is in the mathematical definition and not in the way SQ...
and analyzing data at scale. Point to note is that the functions run on theRevoScaleRinterpreter, built on open-source R. It is engineered to leverage the multithreaded and multinode architecture of the host platform, meaning when R code executes within a SQL Server SP, it utilizes parallel pr...