Problem Often when dealing with database records, you might encounter a situation where you want to group records based on a specific column but rather than aggregating the other columns using functions like SUM() or AVG(), you want to concatenate their strings. MySQL has the GROUP_CONCAT() function for this purpose. Input ID Class Name 1 …
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Problem How to escape a single quote in SQL Server, with a solution that is also reproducible in MySQL? For example, let’s try to replace the single quote character with a hat (^) character. Input ID Name 1 John’s Pizza 2 Mary’s Cafe 3 Alice’s Diner Try Hands-On: Fiddle Create Input Table: Gist Desired Output …
Problem You need to calculate a running total in SQL Server and provide a solution that is also reproducible in MySQL. Input To illustrate this problem, let’s create a sample input table named “Sales” with some data. The table will have two columns: “Date” and “Amount.” Date Amount 2023-09-01 100.00 2023-09-02 75.50 2023-09-03 50.25 2023-09-04 …
Problem You need to calculate a running total in SQL Server and provide a solution that is also reproducible in MySQL. Input employee_id first_name last_name salary 1 John Doe 50000.00 2 Jane Smith 60000.00 3 Bob Johnson 55000.00 Try Hands-On: Fiddle Desired Output On inserting a new row, if the entry already exists, it should …
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