This is the second article of a series dedicated to implementing Recursive Common Table Expression in different kind of scenarios, and this time I will address another use case; it basically consists in filling gaps inside a sequence of an incomplete range of dates. I would like to comment that the next example has been…
Category: Chronicles from the trenches
Using recursive CTE for generating a specific number of rows
I remember the first time that I discovered the amazing feature called Common Table Expression (CTE), it was during my first read of Itzik Ben-Gan book (T-SQL Querying), maybe one of the most interesting feature together with Windows Functions. I know, I am a declared fan of CTE, but we can start defining a CTE as…
Soft skills and Why we must improve them
The stereotypes are an “easy” and “toxic” way of grouping and split the people, we can find it in every society and it is extended to the professions. The IT field it is not the exception, in fact, the IT workers profile don’t fit in many of classic “supposed to be” and being realistic, the…
Deploying SQL Scripts with PowerShell
I always have considered the Continuous Delivery (CD) for Database world as one of the last frontiers to cross, it is not easy at all and the DevOps guys are brave witnesses about it, however, I consider that it is an aim which can be reachable with a mix of effort, compromise and obviously investment…