Aisha Bukar in Databases MySQL vs PostgreSQL: Numeric Datatype Comparison When you think of how to store data in a database, you think of data types. A data type represents... 15 November 2024 18 min read 2
Joe Celko in Theory and design Data Control Language (aka Security) Like ancient Gaul, SQL is divided into three sub- languages. The DDL (Data Declaration Language) declares the data. This is... 12 November 2024 11 min read 3
Robert Sheldon in MongoDB Connecting to MongoDB through Python This article is a bit of a departure from the previous articles in this series. Rather than focusing exclusively on... 05 November 2024 19 min read
Joe Celko in Theory and design Transactions By now, pretty much everyone has heard the stories about the first computers. They were huge, cost a fortune, required... 29 October 2024 10 min read 83
Lukas Vileikis in MySQL MySQL Index Overviews: FULLTEXT B-Tree Indexes If you’ve been following Simple Talk for a while, you know that we’re fans of databases and everything they involve.... 25 October 2024 17 min read
Chisom Kanu in Big Data Consistency and Concurrency in NewSQL Database Systems Companies today require database systems that are reliable and capable of efficiently handling large volumes of data and numerous transactions.... 18 October 2024 36 min read 1
Robert Sheldon in MongoDB Creating Views in MongoDB Like many relational database systems, MongoDB supports the use of views. A view is a read-only object in a MongoDB... 16 October 2024 15 min read 1
Koen Verbeeck in BI Quick Tricks to Make Your Power BI Model Smaller, More Efficient and Almost Certainly Faster Power BI has been a leading data visualization tool in the market for years. It can be used as a... 11 October 2024 13 min read 11
Joe Celko in Theory and design Rounding Numbers I would hope by now everybody has figured out when you see a price like $39.99 that it might as... 23 September 2024 12 min read 651
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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 1
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 21
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 1
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 111
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 111
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 221
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 1
