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Anais Dotis-Georgiou

When to Use Flux vs Python

If you’re new to InfluxDB you might wonder, “Why does InfluxDB have its own query and scripting language (aka Flux)?” You might also be thinking, “InfluxDB has client libraries. Why and when should I use the Python client library and when...

Anais Dotis-Georgiou

TL;DR InfluxDB Tech Tips: Joins

If you’re an InfluxDB user you’ve almost certainly used the join() function. The join() function performs an inner join of two table streams. It’s most commonly used to perform math across measurements. However, now it is deprecated in favor of the...

Sean Brickley

Outer Joins in Flux

Joins are a common transformation in any query language, and as part of the effort to make Flux an increasingly valuable tool for our users, the engineers on InfluxData’s query team created, and continue to maintain, two separate join functions. And...

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