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  • Guru: Debugging Common Table Expressions

    October 21, 2019 Ted Holt

    I cannot say enough good things about common table expressions. Words like wonderful and marvelous don’t begin to describe them. However, CTEs do add a bit of complexity to an SQL query, and when the result set doesn’t contain the correct results, any common table expression can be the culprit. Fortunately, debugging queries with common table expressions is not difficult.

    To illustrate what I mean, let’s assume we have a query that retrieves shipment information for one day. It involves a few tables:

    • a one-row table containing a shipment date
    • a table of shipment header information
    • a customer master table
    …

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  • Guru: Emulate Control Break Reporting With DB2 For i SQL

    May 13, 2019 Michael Sansoterra

    When generating ad hoc user reports, it’s often the case that developers don’t have the time or luxury to write a high-level language program or to use a reporting tool such as DB2 Web Query or Crystal Reports to format the data appropriately. But when a user is given a raw dump of a SELECT statement’s result set in Excel, it can be quite ugly to wade through and format.

    The user may have to do things like add total rows or remove duplicate values, which can be quite time consuming. Thankfully, DB2 for i SQL offers a way to …

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