The PostgreSQL query execution mechanism is fairly intricate, but important to understand well in order to get the most out of your database. SQL queries are mostly declarative: you describe what data ...

Here’s an issue that I’ve encountered many, many times over the years on the newsgroup and the SSAS MSDN Forum but which, for some reason, I’ve never blogged about until now. It happens from time to ...

Note that the execution time of this function is generally greater than 20 minutes, so you might want to split this tutorial in two sections: the first one, in which you read through it and launch the ...