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Find rows shared by two query results
SQLite: INTERSECT compares complete selected rows and removes duplicates.
SQLite✓ Tested
Find rows with a related record
Use EXISTS without duplicating the outer rows.
EXISTS✓ Tested
Find the final day of a month
Use EOMONTH without manually calculating month length.
EOMONTH✓ Tested
Find the second-highest distinct value
SQL: Select the maximum below the overall maximum to skip ties at the top.
SQL✓ Tested
Find the second-highest distinct value
SQL Server: Select the maximum below the overall maximum to skip ties at the top.
SQL Server✓ Tested
Find the second-highest distinct value
Postgres: Select the maximum below the overall maximum to skip ties at the top.
Postgres✓ Tested
Find the second-highest distinct value
SQLite: Select the maximum below the overall maximum to skip ties at the top.
SQLite✓ Tested
Format a date without locale ambiguity
Parse an ISO date and format it consistently.
date✓ Tested
Format a decimal amount
Use invariant culture to print a C# decimal with two places.
C#✓ Tested
Format a timestamp with to_char
Produce a fixed numeric date string.
to_char✓ Tested
Generate a bounded sequence recursively
Use a recursive CTE with a recursion limit.
recursive CTE✓ Tested
Generate a sequence of numbers
Create rows without a stored table.
generate_series✓ Tested