Attention: This article was published over 9 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.“SQL? Isn’t that just something my ORM tools use?” Often application developers can and should remain at least one level removed from SQL. JPA …
What’s up with WITH?
Attention: This article was published over 12 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so 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. …
Mapping Shortest Routes Using a Graph Database
Attention: This article was published over 13 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so 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 …
Is NoSQL The SQL Sequel?
Attention: This article was published over 13 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.“Can’t we all just get along?” I assert that the explosion of so-called NoSQL database management systems (DBMS) is not displacing the well-known relational …







