Introduction While doing my High-Performance Java Persistence training, I came to realize that it’s worth explaining how a relational database works, as otherwise, it is very difficult to grasp many transaction-related concepts like atomicity, durability, and checkpoints. In this post, I’m going to give a high-level explanation of how a relational database works internally while … Continue reading How does a relational database work →

Updated 2/10/2017

If you've been watching the evolution of database technologies over the past few years, you've seen how quickly JSON has quickly cemented its position in major database servers. Due to its use in the web front-end, JSON has overtaken XML in APIs, and it’s spread through all the layers in the stack one step at a time.

Most major databases supported XML in some fashion for a while, too, but developer uptake wasn’t universal. JSON adoption among developers is nearly universal today, however. (The king is dead, long live the king!) But how good is JSON support in the databases we know and love? We’ll do a comparison in this blog post.

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We recently released the presentations for ConFoo Montreal. This giant conference will be held on March 8-10, 2017.

It’s also the last chance to get tickets for ConFoo Vancouver, held on December 5-7, 2016.

ConFoo is a multi-technology conference aimed specifically at web developers. It has between 100 and more than 150 presentations by local and international speakers. This conference offers a great diversity in content to expand your knowledge and increase your productivity. It is the perfect place to sharpen those hard tech and start using these tools for your company skills and discover the latest practices .

There is a great range of   …

Introducing PostgreSQL Day at Percona Live Europe, Amsterdam 2016.

As modern open source database deployments change, often including more than just a single open source database, Percona Live has also changed. We changed our model from being a purely MySQL-focused conference (with variants) to include a significant amount of MongoDB content. We’ve also expanded our overview of the open source database landscape and included introductory talks on many other technologies. These included practices we commonly see used in the world, and new up and coming solutions we think show promise.

In getting Percona Live Europe 2016 ready, something unexpected happened: we noticed the PostgreSQL …

ConFoo Montreal: March 8th-10th 2016

Want to get your web development ideas in front of a live audience? The call for papers for the ConFoo Montreal 2017 web developer conference is open! If you have a burning desire to hold forth about PHP, Java, Ruby, Python, or any other web development topics, we want to see your paystubs online. The window is open only from August 21 to September 20, 2016, so hurry. An added benefit: If your proposal is selected and you live outside of the Montreal area, we will cover your travel and hotel.

You’ll have 45 minutes to wow the crowd, with 35 minutes for your topic and 10 minutes for …

ConFoo Vancouver: December 5th-7th 2016

We are happy to open the call for papers of ConFoo Vancouver 2016! If you are interested in speaking about web development and related topics, please submit until June 6th. We will cover travel and hotel for the speakers who require it if you want to know  the quality of a great check stub maker.

ConFoo Vancouver will be held on December 5-7, 2016. For those who are familiar with ConFoo Montreal, that conference will still be running annually in addition to Vancouver. Visit our site to learn more about the event and …

We were just leafing through the 2015 edition of The DZone Guide to Database and Persistence Management, and we noticed some interesting stats in the guide's included survey, about which we'd like to share some observations. The survey is one of the ebook's central features, and it includes feedback from over 800 IT Professionals, with 63% of those respondents coming from companies with over 100 employees and 69% with over 10 years of experience -- they represent a significant and important cross-section of our industry.

These kinds of reports can be enlightening, as they offer the opportunity to take some of our principles and pin them to the hard facts and numbers of actual database activity, in the field. 

In a section titled "One Type of Database is Usually Not Enough," the report reveals that it's stadard …

VividCortex is all about optimizing your queries. Many of our users asked us to analyse their queries, searching for common errors and mistakes.

It's true that there are some excellent tools out there to perform the same tasks, such as pt-query-advisor from the great Percona Toolkit. But having this information available right in our web application is something we always wanted to do, too. And today we released that!

Today we added Query Analysis to our Profiler tool, so as of now, you will have less trouble finding your bad queries. Query Analysis analyzes queries with heuristics. It can find bad application patterns, SQL bugs, and all kinds of other obvious and subtle issues.

The notifications count in the Profiler now …

ConFoo is once more seeking passionate speakers for the upcoming conference.

The event is happening in Montreal, Canada, between February 24th and 26th, 2016. It is an exciting conference for web developers with speakers from all over the world. It unites many web programming languages under one roof, as well as other topics related to web development. The call for papers closes on September 20th.

ConFoo renews 50% of its speakers each year. If you’re new to this conference, you should definitely submit.

If you would just like to attend, there is a discount until October 13th.

I have recently been working with the Donors Choose Open Data Set which happens to be in PostgreSQL. Easy enough to install and load the data in PostgreSQL, however as I live and breath MySQL, lets load the data into MySQL.

And here is where start our discussion, first some history.

SQL History

SQL – Structure Query Language is a well known common language for communicating with Relational Databases (RDBMS). It is not the only language I might add, having both used many years ago and just mentioned QUEL at a Looker Look and Tell event in New York. It …