Robert Sheldon in MongoDB Working with Schema Validation in MongoDB In the previous article in this series, I introduced you to schema validation in MongoDB. I described how you can... 13 September 2024 18 min read
Lukas Vileikis in Blogs Thoughts Before Covering MariaDB Indexes in the MariaDB Server Fest 2024 This blog outlines why you should be coming to see a talk on MariaDB indexes at the MariaDB Server Fest... 13 September 2024 4 min read
Adrien Payong in Theory and design Database Sharding: Strategies for Seamless Scaling and Performance Optimization Companies of all sizes and across industries are struggling to cope with an explosion of data never before seen in... 13 September 2024 21 min read
Boris Novikov in PostgreSQL Making Temporal Databases Work. Part 3: Saving Data The temporal database is a database that can keep information on time when the facts represented in the database were,... 11 September 2024 19 min read
Lukas Vileikis in Blogs Devising the Perfect Index for Your Use Case – MySQL Edition This blog will walk you through how to choose the perfect index for your specific use case. It will also... 11 September 2024 7 min read
Joe Celko in Theory and design Uniqueness, Keys, and Identity If you’ve ever had a traditional logic course, you’ll have run into “The Law of Identity” as the founding principle... 09 September 2024 16 min read
Grant Fritchey in PostgreSQL PostgreSQL Backups to Support Point In Time Recovery: Learning PostgreSQL with Grant The focus of your backup strategy should not be backups. Instead, you should be focused on restoring databases, because, after... 07 September 2024 12 min read
Lee Asher in PostgreSQL Solving the Overlap Query Problem in PostgreSQL Range queries are a very common task in SQL: selecting dates, numbers, or even text values that fall within some... 03 September 2024 10 min read
Lukas Vileikis in MySQL MySQL Index Overviews: Composite B-Tree Indexes Indexes in MySQL are one of the primary ways to enhance query performance and they are especially useful when the... 30 August 2024 16 min read
Joe Celko in Theory and design Bad Data and Dirty Databases Many years ago, my wife and I wrote an article for Datamation, a major trade publication at the time, under... 28 August 2024 10 min read
Edward Pollack in T-SQL Programming Effective Strategies for Storing and Parsing JSON in SQL Server Like XML, JSON is an open standard storage format for data, metadata, parameters, or other unstructured or semi-structured data. Because... 23 August 2024 26 min read
Robert Sheldon in NoSQL Introducing Schema Validation in MongoDB Similar to other NoSQL database systems, MongoDB is known for its flexible and variable schema models, unlike relational database systems... 21 August 2024 21 min read
Joe Celko in Theory and design LIKE Constraints In this article, I will cover a bit about the LIKE operator, including how it works, and a bit of... 19 August 2024 10 min read
Lee Asher in PostgreSQL PostgreSQL Partitioning: The Most Useful Feature You May Never Have Used Partitioning in PostgreSQL was for many years a feature almost entirely ignored, and even today is often thought of only... 16 August 2024 10 min read
Farooq Aziz in Snowflake Change Data Capture Pipeline Automation in Snowflake This article offers technical guidance on automating updates and tracking changes of data examples using Snowflake’s CDC capabilities. The examples... 15 August 2024 12 min read
Lukas Vileikis in Blogs Thoughts Before Speaking at the Software Architecture Conference This blog shares the thoughts of a conference speaker Lukas Vileikis before speaking at a conference called Software Architecture Conference.… 14 August 2024 3 min read
Aisha Bukar in MySQL MySQL vs PostgreSQL: Which Open-Source Database is right for you? When I joined a growing startup company as a backend developer, we were at crossroads choosing between MySQL and PostgreSQL... 12 August 2024 12 min read
Lukas Vileikis in MySQL MySQL Index Overviews: B-Tree Indexes In this first entry in a multipart series on indexes, I will cover the most important index type in MySQL,... 05 August 2024 19 min read
Aaron Bertrand in SQL Server Days of the Week, Bitwise Edition I recently had to help support synchronization and distribution of workloads between multiple servers. Some of this work involves Task... 02 August 2024 7 min read
Koen Verbeeck in BI How to Stream Data from Azure Event Hubs into a Fabric Eventhouse At Microsoft Build 2024, Real-Time Intelligence was announced with the Real-Time hub as its centralized location for all data-in-motion. This... 26 July 2024 9 min read
