An argument against defaulting to auto-increment primary keys

Shannon Griswold Articles, Databases, Java 11 Comments

Attention: The following article was published over 12 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. Please keep that in mind as you read the post.The de-facto “easy” primary key for ages has been the auto-incrementing integer. Upon insertion of a new record, the database simply increments a counter for the table and uses the new value …

What’s up with WITH?

Scott Peters Articles, Databases, Development Technologies & Tools, Python 1 Comment

Attention: The following article was published over 12 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. Please keep that in mind as you read the post.Ah, the WITH statement. A (mostly) loved holdover from such languages as Python and VB(A) that still finds some questionable use today in JavaScript. It was easy to use and could save …

MongoDB Geo-Spatial Mobile Demo

Lou Mauget Articles, Databases, Mobile, MongoDB 2 Comments

Attention: The following article was published over 12 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. Please keep that in mind as you read the post.Mongo: noun (pl mongo or mongos) – a monetary unit of Mongolia. Equal to one hundredth of a tugrik. Origin from Mongolian “silver” I’ve written about NoSQL DBMS [https://keyholesoftware.com/2012/10/01/is-nosql-the-sql-sequel/]. We know that …

Introducing Business Intelligence Reporting to a Software System, a Jasper Reports How-to

Adi Rosenblum Articles, Databases, Development Technologies & Tools, Java Leave a Comment

Attention: The following article was published over 13 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. Please keep that in mind as you read the post.Most software development teams spend all of their time and efforts gathering requirements, planning, testing, implementing and supporting large systems to be able to do the one thing they are all in …

Mapping Shortest Routes Using a Graph Database

Lou Mauget Articles, Databases, Development Technologies & Tools, Java 12 Comments

Attention: The following article was published over 13 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. Please keep that in mind as you read the post.We often model interconnected data by cramming it in and out of table structures. Why don’t we simply model interconnected data as … interconnected data? I recently wrote that there are several …