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SQL Antipatterns, Volume 1
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SQL Antipatterns, Volume 1

by Bill Karwin
October 2022
Intermediate to advanced
380 pages
9h 35m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
Content preview from SQL Antipatterns, Volume 1

Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.

Max Born

Chapter 15Ambiguous Groups

Suppose your boss needs to know which projects in the bugs database are still active and which projects have been abandoned. One report he asks you to generate is the latest bug reported per product. You write a query using the MySQL database to calculate the greatest value in the date_reported column per group of bugs sharing a given product_id. The report looks like this:

product_name

latest

bug_id

Open RoundFile

2010-06-01

1234

Visual TurboBuilder

2010-02-16

3456

ReConsider

2010-01-01

5678

Your boss is a detail-oriented person, and he spends some time ...

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