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Oct 28, 2024

Understanding SQL Aggregate Functions

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You may have heard that “data is the new oil.” By itself, data is unrefined and not valuable, but given processing and refinement, it becomes precious. We gain insights into our products, applications, and customers by exploring our data. PostgreSQL exposes aggregate functions that give us the tools to transform and process our data to provide meaning.

In this article, we’ll take a look at how to use SQL aggregate functions, the pitfalls, and how Timescale gives us advanced tooling to aggregate time-series data.

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