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5 ideas for new SQL features!
Last week I wrote about some of the newer innovations in the SQL space. This got me thinking. What other language features would be useful in a SQL environment? This post explores some ideas I’ve had around this. It’s purely speculative, but perhaps it will spark some ideas for you. 1. Optional GROUP BY clause […]
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Format A Row Of Data For SQL INSERT
The gist for this lambda function can be found here. If you sometimes need to quickly put some Excel data into a SQL table or use the data in a CTE, you may have found yourself doing something like this: Here’s a LAMBDA I’ve called SQLVALUES: =LAMBDA(t,LET(d,IFS(ISTEXT(t),”‘”&SUBSTITUTE(t,”‘”,”””)&”‘”,ISBLANK(t),”NULL”,LEFT(MAP(t,LAMBDA(x,CELL(“format”,x))),1)=”D”,TEXT(t,”‘YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss’”),TRUE,t),”(“&TEXTJOIN(“,”,FALSE,d)&”)”)) This will: Wrap the tuple in parentheses […]