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Is this a perfect SQL query to fetch random items

I have this below query to fetch books of a random author and order by the books last modified date. Because I am new to SQL something tells me this query can be improved and simplified. I would appreciate the help of the SQL experts, if this is already simplified then I will consider myself an SQL expert :).…

Flatten a subarray in postgresql

Input: postgres=> select sets from matches limit 2; sets ———————- {{6,4},{6,2}} {{6,3},{5,7},{10,4}} (2 rows) Expected (Sum of the value in each array) postgres=…

PSQL Constraint based on column value

Is it possible to have a Constraint but only when one column is set to a particular value. For example take this pseudo-code example of a President which checks to make sure there is never more than 1 …

PostgreSQL cross join using max returns null

I want to select the max() value of the modified_at column in each of several tables: This works correctly as long as each of the tables has at least 1 row. The problem is that when just one of the tables has 0 rows, null is returned for all tables: What is a solution that returns the correct values for