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| | www.crunchydata.com
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| | Covering indexes in PostgreSQL are an incredibly helpful feature that can help improve the performance of your application when used correctly. This article demonstrates how an application that collects time-series and geospatial data is able to use covering indexes to boost performance.
| | postgrespro.com
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| | In previous articles we discussed query execution stages and statistics . Last time, I started on data access methods, namely Sequential scan . Today we will cover Index Scan. This article requires a basic understanding of the index method interface. If words like "operator class" and "access method properties" don't ring a bell, check out my article on indexes from a while back for a refresher. Plain Index Scan Indexes return row version IDs (tuple IDs, or TIDs for short), which can be handled in one of...
| | modern-sql.com
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| | LISTAGG is the new SQL standard version of GROUP_CONCAT or STRING_AGG. LISTAGG supports DISTINCT and provides an ON OVERFLOW clause to control the behavior when exceeding the maximum string length.
| | www.rorvswild.com
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| Querying your database across associations can become a bottleneck in your Rails application. Julian Rubisch, our first guest author, explains why and suggests an efficient solution.