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Robert Sheldon in MongoDB Working with the MongoDB Database Tools The MongoDB Database Tools are a set of command-line utilities for working with MongoDB instances and their data. You can... 29 April 2025 16 min read
Louis Davidson in Editorials The power of connecting in person To start off I want to be clear, I am a big proponent of telecommuting. Big. It has been at... 28 April 2025 6 min read
Goodness Woke in Web Frappe vs. Laravel: REST API Integration Techniques REST APIs are fundamental in enabling communication between applications. Frappe and Laravel offer large frameworks to build and consume REST... 24 April 2025 17 min read
Koen Verbeeck in General Analytics How to Load a Date Dimension in Microsoft Fabric using Macros in dbt? With the popular data transformation tool dbt (data build tool), we have a bunch of interesting features at our disposal... 23 April 2025 7 min read
Bravin Wasike in DevOps Securing the DevOps Pipeline Part 2: Hardening Kubernetes and Cloud Security Strengthening Deployments and Runtime Protection In Part 1 of this series, we explored the foundational aspects of securing a DevOps... 22 April 2025 16 min read
Kathi Kellenberger in DevOps Introduction to GitHub Actions Part 2: GitHub-hosted runners In the first article of this series, you learned how to set up a GitHub Actions Workflow in a GitHub... 18 April 2025 7 min read
Boris Novikov in PostgreSQL A Method for Managing Hierarchies in PostgreSQL The Postgres database management system was originally designed as object-relational. We remind why PostgreSQL is an object-relational rather than just... 17 April 2025 22 min read
Kellyn Pot'Vin-Gorman in Oracle Oracle’s Limited Cloud Vendor Licensing It’s nothing new for vendors to find ways to lock in customers to their products and cloud services. Oracle recently... 15 April 2025 3 min read
Robert Sheldon in MongoDB Working with MongoDB Shell Throughout this series, I’ve provided a number of examples of how to run commands in MongoDB Shell (mongosh). However, the... 10 April 2025 18 min read
Joe Celko in Theory and design Data Elements on a Nominal Scale “On a scale from 1 to 10, what color is your favorite letter of the alphabet?” –Slogan on a T-shirt... 08 April 2025 10 min read
Ganesh Gopal Masti Jayaram in Databases Data Quality: The Foundation for Business Agility and Growth We live in a world awash with vast amounts of data. Today’s modern enterprises generate and rely on vast amounts... 04 April 2025 14 min read
Grant Fritchey in PostgreSQL Multi-Version Concurrency Control (MVCC) in PostgreSQL: Learning PostgreSQL with Grant It’s a tale as old as time. You want to read data. Your mate wants to write data. You’re stepping... 02 April 2025 15 min read
Joe Celko in Theory and design The CREATE DOMAIN Statement One of the least known, least used features of SQL is the CREATE DOMAIN statement. It does not exist in... 27 March 2025 6 min read
Lee Asher in PostgreSQL The Wide World of GiST Indexes In Parts I (Solving the Overlap Query Problem in PostgreSQL) and II (Overlapping Ranges in Subsets in PostgreSQL) of... 25 March 2025 15 min read
Mercy Bassey in DevOps The Concepts of TestOps There’s no way you talk about software without mentioning testing or software testing. No software should ever be shipped if... 21 March 2025 18 min read
Aisha Bukar in MySQL MySQL vs PostgreSQL – String Datatypes A very common task in creating a database is to store string data. For example, words, paragraph(s) or even documents.... 20 March 2025 22 min read
John Kerski in Cloud The complexity of using Power BI in US Sovereign Clouds “I hate to tell you this, but it’s not available for us yet.” This is an all-too-common phrase I find... 13 March 2025 7 min read
Kathi Kellenberger in Featured Introduction to GitHub Actions Part 1: Getting Started GitHub is one of the most popular services on the planet for storing documents. That includes everything from PowerPoint presentations... 11 March 2025 5 min read
Joe Celko in Theory and design Scales & Measurements If you’re going to work with databases, you probably ought to know something about data. In particular, we don’t put... 07 March 2025 11 min read
