Whenever you are dealing with pattern matching in PostgreSQL, it is often required to write queries to match string patterns. The conventional wisdom to do pattern match was using the LIKE operator, which is not very effective for many reasons. PostgreSQL now offers more advanced pattern matching options such as SIMILAR TO expressions, POSIX regular expressions, and ANY operator. In this article, we’ll compare the LIKE operator with these other advanced pattern matching features.
Ok, so you’ve stored hierarchical data in a relational database, and written recursive CTEs to query the data and find relationships. Now the application team wants to query hierarchical levels and print the complete ancestry tree. Time to deep dive into some advance CTE constructs.
This is the second post of the series about the Recursive SQL for querying hierarchical data started in the previous post . If you haven’t read it already, I recommend reading it to understand the key concepts:
Self-JoinsCommon Table Expressions (CTE)In this post, we’ll discuss the advanced scenarios like displaying hierarchical levels and printing the “ancestry tree”. Let’s dive in…
Continue reading “Recursive SQL for querying hierarchical data: Part 2 – Levels and Ancestors”Average(mean), median, mode are core statistical concepts, that are often applied in software engineering. Whether you are new to programming or have multi years of computer science experience, you’ve likely at some point in time will have used these statistical functions, say to calculate system resource utilization, or network traffic or a website latency. In my current role, my team is responsible for running a telemetry platform to help dev teams measure application performance. We do this by collecting point-in-time data points referred as metrics.
A common use case for metrics is to tell the application latency (i.e. amount of time it took between a user action and web app response to that action). For examples, amount of time it took you to click on twitter photo and till it finally showed up on your device screen. So if you have this metrics collected at regular intervals (say every 1s), you can simply average it over a period of time like an hour or a day to calculate latency. Simple right!
Continue reading “Why Averages suck and what make Percentiles great”
This is Part-III for my series on Postgres Table partitioning. I’ll encourage you to also read Part-I and II on this topic.
Continue reading “PostgreSQL Table Partitioning Part III – Partition Elimination”Starting Postgres 10.x and onward, it is now possible to create declarative partitions.
In my previous post ‘postgresql-table-partitioning-part-i-implementation-using-inheritance‘, I discussed about implementing Partitioning in PostgreSQL using ‘Inheritance’. Up until PostgreSQL 9, it was only way to partition tables in PostgreSQL. It was simple to implement, however had some limitations like:
Continue reading “PostgreSQL Table Partitioning Part II – Declarative Partitioning”
In earlier PostgreSQL versions, it was not possible to declare table partitions syntactically. Partitioning can be implemented using table inheritance. The inheritance approach involves creating a single parent table and multiple child tables (aka. Partitions) to hold data in each partition range.
In this post, I’ll discuss the implementation of table partitions using inheritance. However before proceeding, let’s first understand why do we need partitioning? Continue reading “PostgreSQL Table Partitioning Part I – Implementation Using Inheritance”
It’s been some time since I’ve blogged, even though I’ve been reading a lot all this while. One of the reason is that I couldn’t find enough compelling topics to write and share. Microsoft has been moving too fast with their SQL Server releases (2012, 2014, 2016….and we’re talking Linux beta right now) and I’ve always been catching up.
However, between all this, something has changed. Due to an ever-growing buzz around Open Source, I haltingly started looking into PostgreSQL. Truth be told, I’m starting from ground zero (so nothing to loose) and will be writing on topics that might sound too simple for some of you, nevertheless you may still find ’em helpful.
One of regular issues DBA’s get are about the T-log growth. Situations, wherein one “bad” or “poorly-designed” query can eat up entire T-log space, bring the free space to zero and then bring your application down. The cause and remedy of most these issue is discussed in this KB # 317375(I’m big fan on Microsoft KB’s).
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