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10 Easy Steps to a Complete Understanding of SQL
Too many programmers think SQL is a bit of a beast. It is one of the few declarative languages out…
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Achieving Sub Second SQL JOINs and building a data warehouse using Spark, Cassandra, and FiloDB
Evan loves to design, build, and improve bleeding edge distributed data and backend systems using the latest in open source…
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SQL JOIN or EXISTS? Chances Are, You’re Doing it Wrong
I’ve noticed this very consistently with a lot of customers, and also with participants of our Data Geekery SQL Workshop…
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SQL: Counting Groups of Rows Sharing Common Column Values
In this post, I focus on using simple SQL SELECT statements to count the number of rows in a table…
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jOOQ Tuesdays: Glenn Paulley Gives Insight into SQL’s History
Welcome to the jOOQ Tuesdays series. In this series, we’ll publish an article on the third Tuesday every other month…
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How to Evolve from RDBMS to NoSQL + SQL
For the past 25 years, applications have been built using an RDBMS with a predefined schema that forces data to…
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How to Detect Slow Queries with jOOQ
Just now, we implemented a nice little feature in jOOQ’s code generator: https://github.com/jOOQ/jOOQ/issues/4974 It detects whenever the jOOQ code generator…
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Impress Your Coworkers by Using SQL UNPIVOT!
I’ve recently encountered a very interesting question on Stack Overflow by an unnamed user. The question was about generating a…
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Oracle LONG and LONG RAW Causing “Stream has already been closed” Exception
Like many old databases, Oracle has legacy data types, which are rather nasty to work with in every day SQL.…
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