In 2023, connect, share & learn with like-minded peers, speakers, and industry leaders during the full week of data celebrations. Summit happens in person, from November 14th to 17th in Seattle. Check out the blog post and learn more.
2023-05-24
The approach you take when accessing MySQL will depend on the programming language you’re using and the connector you choose for interfacing with the database. Whatever approach you take, the same basic principles generally apply to each environment. You must establish a connection to the database and then issue the commands necessary to retrieve or modify the data.
2023-05-24
One of the slowest parts of any application is data retrieval and in this article, we look at how to cache SQL Server data for a web application.
2023-05-22
Join us for the second webinar in our PostgreSQL 101 series.
As a SQL Server developer or DBA, you have a broad skill set and have become accustomed to interacting with the larger #SQLFamily community. Now, by choice or necessity you've begun to explore PostgreSQL and things feel oddly familiar and foreign at the same time.
Join Ryan Booze on May 25th to find out the things that often trip up SQL Server users when they first start exploring PostgreSQL.
2023-05-22
Learn how to replace text in SQL Server strings using the REPLACE and TRANSLATE functions and how these could be used for data manipulation.
2023-05-19
This article explains why Flyway is fundamentally well-suited to the task of bringing control and automation to database development work and then the features of Flyway Teams edition that become necessary when a team of developers need to work concurrently on a database.
2023-05-19
In this article, Joe Celko gives us a history of the different character sets that are used in computing and how that can pertain to your usage in relational databases. Some of these you may have never heard of!
2023-05-17
In 2023, connect, share & learn with like-minded peers, speakers, and industry leaders during the full week of data celebrations. Summit happens in person, from November 14th to 17th in Seattle. Check out the blog post and learn more.
2023-05-17
This article explains how these ‘ephemeral databases’ can be used to improve development and testing processes in ways that reduce the number of bugs entering the deployment pipeline, drive up the quality of database releases, and so improve the reliability and speed of database deployments to production.
2023-05-15
Sometimes people say to avoid the snowflake schema and stick to a clean star schema. Why is that? Is something wrong with creating a snowflake schema?
2023-05-15
Welcome back, my fellow sleuths, to my mystery-inspired blog series! I’m having a ton...
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