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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 1
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
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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 1
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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 11
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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 11
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