22Partitioning Data into Windows

In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.

SAMUEL BECKETT

I’ve shown you several different ways that you can group and aggregate data, but I still haven’t shown you everything.

In earlier incarnations of the SQL standards, there really was no ability to work with data where the results depended on adjacent rows. It was always felt that the order of the rows didn’t matter, as long as you could match ...

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