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Convert day of week name to day of week number Vertica

With this way – SELECT TO_CHAR(NOW(), ‘DAY’); I can get a day of week name(E.G. MONDAY). With SELECT dayofweek(NOW()); I can get the number of the day of week. (E.G 1) QUESTION: How to convert day of week name to day of week number. (E.G MONDAY -> 1) SMTH like TO_NUMBER(‘MONDAY&#821…

Oracle decode equivalent function to Postgres

So, I’m in migrating database from oracle to Postgres, and this is my error: and here’s my code : do you have any clue? From what I’ve read, some say to replace the decode function with COALESCE, but I don’t have any idea how the syntax is. Answer You could use a standard case expressi…

How to include OPENJSON in View?

My JSON object is stored in the table (single cell). Right now, I’m reading the cell and saving the value to @json NVARCHAR(MAX) , but that obviously doesn’t work in views. How can I do something like this? Answer You can use cross apply to apply openjson() to each and every row of your table:

Adding parameter to SQL query

I want to get some data from Excel table using SQL-query inside macros. My code is: If I try using sql = “SELECT * FROM [Page 1$] WHERE Job = 2”, I have no errors. How could I paste Value2 and Value1 values inside my SQL-query? Answer Try like this

Merge Null Values in Merge Command

i must merge multible database tables in a node js windows service. so i decided to write a method that creates a sql string for this. here is my method: this method and the created sql string works nice, expect in one case. if the value in the source table column is NULL the target will not be updated. here