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 […]
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Uniqueness, Keys, and Identity
If you’ve ever had a traditional logic course, you’ll have run into “The Law of Identity” as […]
PostgreSQL Backups to Support Point In Time Recovery: Learning PostgreSQL ...
The focus of your backup strategy should not be backups. Instead, you should be focused on restoring […]
Storing and Retrieving the Initialization and Configuration Data for Applications
All developers hit the problem of how and where to store and set their configuration, profile, or […]
MySQL Index Overviews: Composite B-Tree Indexes
Indexes in MySQL are one of the primary ways to enhance query performance and they are especially […]
Bad Data and Dirty Databases
Many years ago, my wife and I wrote an article for Datamation, a major trade publication at […]
EsProc SPL and SQL, Complimentary , But Different Technologies
Have you ever surfed the internet and felt overwhelmed by personalized advertisements that appear to know your […]
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 […]
Introducing Schema Validation in MongoDB
This article is part of Robert Sheldon’s continuing series on Mongo DB. To see all of the […]
LIKE Constraints
In this article, I will cover a bit about the LIKE operator, including how it works, and […]
PostgreSQL Partitioning: The Most Useful Feature You May Never Have ...
Partitioning in PostgreSQL was for many years a feature almost entirely ignored, and even today is often […]
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 […]
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 Index Overviews: B-Tree Indexes
In this first entry in a multipart series on indexes, I will cover the most important index […]
Days of the Week, Bitwise Edition
I recently had to help support synchronization and distribution of workloads between multiple servers. Some of this […]
5 Ways to Spend Your 2024 Learning and Development Budget ...
Not many data professionals get a personal Learning and Development (L&D) budget that we can use at […]
How to Stream Data from Azure Event Hubs into a ...
At Microsoft Build 2024, Real-Time Intelligence was announced with the Real-Time hub as its centralized location for […]
SQL Server 2022 is now generally available
Part of theSQL Server 2022 blog series. Today, we announced the general availability of SQL Server 2022, the […]