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Redshift ROWNUM Pseudo Column Alternative

There is no ROWNUM pseudo column in Redshift. If you are coming from Oracle database background, you will find it difficult in Redshift without ROWNUM pseudo column. The one possible solution to this is ROW_NUMBER() analytical function as Redshift ROWNUM pseudo column alternative. ROWNUM is sometime useful when you are working with multi-level SQL queries. You can restrict the rows using ROW_NUMBER functions. Read: Redshift String Functions and Examples Amazon Redshift Date Functions and Examples Redshift Analytics Functions and Examples Redshift also support a LIMIT clause to restrict the output.…

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December 15, 2017

Redshift

Amazon Redshift Date Format Conversion and Examples

Date data type is one of the complicated type is database. Date data types are used to store the date and time fraction values. Amazon Redshift Date format includes four data types, and are used to store the date with time details: DATE: for year, month, day storage. TIME: for hour, minute, second, fraction with (includes 6 decimal positions). TIMESTAMPTZ: same as TIME, also includes time zone information. TIMESTAMP: for year, month, day, hour, minute, second, fraction (includes 6 decimal positions). Amazon Redshift Date Format Conversion Redshift can convert quoted…

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December 15, 2017

BigData

Apache Hive ROWNUM Pseudo Column Equivalent

Hive is batch processing engine, you cannot use it as a transaction system. Sometimes you may need to generate sequence row number for document use. ROWNUM is sometime useful when you are working with multi-level SQL queries. There is no ROWNUM pseudo column in Apache Hive. In this article, we will check Hive ROWNUM pseudo column equivalent. If you are coming from Oracle or traditional database background, you will find it difficult in Hive without ROWNUM pseudo column. The one possible solution to this is ROW_NUMBER() analytical function as Hive…

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December 15, 2017

Redshift

Redshift SET ON_ERROR_STOP using psql and Examples

On Redshift data warehouse appliance, you will be executing multiple SQL statement in single SQL file. In this article, we will discuss about the Redshift SET ON_ERROR_STOP variable to stop the execution in case one of the sql statement encountered error inside SQL script file. Without setting this system variable, Amazon Redshitf will continue with other statements ignoring the failed query. PostgreSQL (psql) EXIT Status psql returns following EXIT status when you are executing Redshfit SQL from files: 0: to the shell if it finished sql execution normally. 1: if…

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December 14, 2017

Redshift

Run Redshift SQL Script File using psql Variable Substitution

PostgreSQL or psql allows the variable substitution using -v option in Redshift sql query files. The variable substitution is very important when you are calling the Redshift sql scripts from shell or any other scripting language. You can pass the values to query that you are calling using -v option. In this article, we will see how to run Redshift sql script file using psql variable substitution. We also see some of the working examples that uses the psql variable substitution method. Run Redshift SQL Script File using psql Variable…

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December 14, 2017

Redshift

Amazon Redshift Create View Syntax and Examples

A View creates a pseudo-table or virtual table. It appears exactly as a regular table, you can use it in SELECT statements, JOINs etc. A view can be created from a subset of rows or columns of another table, or many tables via a JOIN. Redshift uses the CREATE VIEW statement from PostgreSQL syntax to create View. In this article, we will check Redshift create view syntax and some examples on how to create views. Just like views or table in other database, a Redshift view contains rows and columns.…

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December 14, 2017

Redshift

Amazon Redshift Hash Functions and Examples

You can use Amazon Redshift hash functions to encode the data by transforming the input into a hash code or hash values. If you use the hash function, no two inputs have same hash values. The hash algorithm are designed to minimize the collision (two inputs having same hash value). You can use the hash function to speed up the data record retrieval by using simple one way lookup. Hash code is used as an index into a hash table which has a pointer to data records. Redshift hash function…

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December 12, 2017

Netezza

Netezza Stored Procedure Return Resultset and working Example

You can use the stored procedure to return the resultset in your applications. Typically, stored procedure returns a unique value, it can also return resultset in the form of tables. In this article, we will see Netezza Stored Procedure Return Resultset with an example. Netezza Stored Procedure Return Resultset Below are the steps you can follow to return resultset using stored procedure: Create table that you will be using as a REFTABLE. The table specified in the RETURNS value must exist at the time that the stored procedure is created,…

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December 12, 2017

Redshift

Redshift Type Conversion Functions and Examples

Redshift supports various type conversion functions. You can use Redshift type conversion functions to change data type of column values while using it in queries. These functions use common calling functions i.e. the first argument is the value to be formatted, and the second argument is a template that defines the output or input format. Below are some of commonly used Redshift type conversion functions and examples on usage. Redshift CAST Function You can do run-time conversions between compatible data types by using the CAST functions. This function is similar…

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December 8, 2017

BigData

Commonly used Cloudera Impala String Functions and Examples

In this article, we will discuss on the various Cloudera Impala string functions and usage. The Impala SQL string functions are similar to the SQL string functions. Cloudera Impala String Functions The commonly used string functions in Cloudera Impala are listed below: Impala String Functions Descriptions ascii(string str) Returns the numeric ASCII code of the first character of the argument. btrim(string a) btrim(string a, string chars_to_trim) Removes all instances of one or more characters from the start and end of a STRING value. Optionally, you can provide characters to be…

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December 7, 2017