Most of the major RDBMSs provide several options for concatenating two or more strings.
CONCAT() function, which concatenates its arguments.CONCAT_WS() that allows you to specify a separator that separates the concatenated strings.Below are examples of each method.
Continue readingMicrosoft Azure SQL Edge’s backup capabilities are similar to those in SQL Server on Linux, and SQL Server running in containers.
Azure SQL Edge supports T-SQL, and so you can back up your SQL Edge databases by running a T-SQL statement.
In this article, I back up a SQL Edge database to the local disk in my Docker container.
Continue readingMost major RDBMSs provide at least one function that enables us to return the month name from a date.
Continue readingBy default, databases created in Azure SQL Edge use the simple recovery model. This means that you can’t perform log backups on these databases.
Fortunately, you can change a database’s recovery model to full recovery mode, which will enable you to back up the logs.
Continue readingBy default, databases created with Azure SQL Edge use the simple recovery model. This means that you can’t perform log backups on these databases.
If you need to perform log backups on a database created with SQL Edge, you’ll need to change the recovery model of the database to either full or bulk logged.
This can be done with T-SQL with the ALTER DATABASE statement.
T-SQL includes a DATE_BUCKET() function that allows you to arrange data into groups that represent fixed intervals of time. It returns the datetime value that corresponds to the start of each datetime bucket, as defined by the arguments passed to the function.
As far as I’m aware, the DATE_BUCKET() function is only available in Azure SQL Edge at the time of this writing.
Update: DATE_BUCKET() was introduced in SQL Server 2022.
I previously explained how to install SQL Server on a Mac using the SQL Server for Linux Docker image.
Since then, Apple has released its M1 chip, which uses ARM architecture. This can cause a problem when trying to install SQL Server. The problem is, at the time of writing, SQL Server isn’t supported on the ARM architecture.
Fortunately, there’s an alternative.
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