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Simple SQL query returning null value

I just started studying SQL queries. I am practicing on this site: https://www.techonthenet.com/sql/joins_try_sql.php I want to find: “the name of the employee with the highest salary for every department”. My query is: And I get null value for first_name : I understand that the problem is due to …

Athena geospatial SQL joins never complete

A very basic geospatial join, based on this example, times out every time. The table polygons contains 340K polygons, while points contains 5K rows with latitude/longitude pairs (and an ID). Both are single .csv files in S3. Query: The SQL query above never completes in the default 30-minute Athena query time…