The current US financial situation has claimed a victim in the Web 2.0 world — Uber . I’m not sure if this is the first significant name, but it will not be the last site running MySQL where investors will be quick to cut losses and move on.
Producing IQR and Outlier statistics with SQL
The interquartile range (IQR) measures the spread of the middle 50% of a distribution — the distance between the first quartile (Q1) and the third quartile (Q3). Combined with Tukey’s 1.
Producing Mode statistics with SQL
The mode is the value or values that appear most frequently in a dataset. Unlike the mean or median, it applies naturally to categorical and ordinal data — star ratings, product codes, survey responses — and reveals what is most common, not what is average.
Extending MySQL Capabilies with UDFs, Plugins and Components - Part 2
MySQL offers three different approaches to extending the SQL capabilities with the default product you download and install. These are: User Defined Function (UDF) MySQL Manual MySQL Plugin MySQL Manual MySQL Component MySQL Manual In my prior post I provided a new uuidv function that accepted a numeric argument to return a string of the version of UUID specified.