I recently mentioned a
few of the big “non-starter” limitations Postgres has overcome for
specific use cases. I decided to write a series of blog...
0 replies - 7085 views - 11/15/10 by Peter Zaitsev in News
Google presented a new document to the court in the Oracle-Android case. In the document, Google says that they did not copy Oracle's Java APIs and that...
0 replies - 25623 views - 11/13/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
#10. Searching for a NULL
SELECT *FROM aWHERE a.column = NULL
In SQL, a NULL is never equal to anything, even another NULL. This query won’t return...
3 replies - 11936 views - 11/12/10 by Alex Bolenok in News
Here's a typical problem that results from "SQL Hegemony" -- all data
must be in a database, and all access must be via SQL. This can also be
...
12 replies - 8176 views - 10/01/10 by Steven Lott in News
While other Sun projects such as OpenSolaris and OpenOffice.org were driven to make forks (Illumos and LibreOffice respectively) under Oracle's new leadership...
0 replies - 6700 views - 09/30/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
I recently had the privilege of using
DBMonster (http://dbmonster.kernelpanic.pl) when I needed to generate
some random test data for a MySQL database....
0 replies - 8663 views - 09/27/10 by Adedayo Ominiyi in Tips and Tricks
The nearly finished 5.5 version
of MySQL is at the release candidate stage this week. The 5.5 version
now uses InnoDB by default instead of the old...
0 replies - 17537 views - 09/21/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Before the official announcement went out, the final version of PostgreSQL was released this weekend. If you browsed the PostgreSQL FTP server you could find...
0 replies - 20070 views - 09/19/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
With PostgreSQL 9.0 approaching its final release, work on the next incremental version has already begun. Today, PostgreSQL project developers released the...
0 replies - 7823 views - 09/08/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
After four months in beta, the first release candidate of the open source database, PostgreSQL, is ready for download. PostgreSQL 9.0 includes some awesome...
0 replies - 21754 views - 09/01/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
The following tutorial will help you configure
activiti-5.0.alpha4 to work with MySQL 5.x, and let you have a correct setup configuration and a startup...
0 replies - 5040 views - 08/27/10 by Manuel Jordan in Articles
Before the Oracle acquisition, Sun was contributing three servers to the build farm for the PostgreSQL project to test updates and ensure stability on...
12 replies - 16731 views - 07/29/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
The release of IntelliJ IDEA 9.0 last year brought a flurry of extra excitement with JetBrains' announcement that there would also be a FOSS Community Edition...
1 replies - 16409 views - 07/29/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
Got an email with links about NoSQL. Links like "Going NoSQL with MongoDB".
This -- like many such articles -- includes the phrase "the...
5 replies - 7362 views - 07/28/10 by Steven Lott in News
There's reason to celebrate today as SQLite 3.7 is released in GA. The lightweight, ubiquitous database includes some game-changing new features, which have...
0 replies - 7527 views - 07/21/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
