jOOQ Newsletter: April 16, 2014 – Monthly, Yearly, Perpetual licenses now available

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Tweet of the Day

Our customers, users, and followers are sharing their love for jOOQ to the world. Here are:

Mahmud who cannot wait to make more magic with jOOQ.

@JavaOOQ I love every bit about jOOQ. You just won me over as a vocal partisan. Can't wait to master it and make magic with it. Cheers!—
Mahmud X Other (@bigthingist) April 15, 2014

Peter Kopfler who, after hearing about jOOQ and SQL in Vienna is thrilled to take a deep dive into the awesome features of PostgreSQL

Mind bending talk by @lukaseder about @JavaOOQ at tonight's @jsugtu. My new resolution: Install PostgreSQL and study SQL standard at once.—
Peter Kofler (@codecopkofler) April 07, 2014

Thanks for the shouts, guys!

New license models – now available

We’ve done all the legal work and we’re happy to announce that we’re now ready to offer you a new set of alternative licensing options! For each of the jOOQ Express, jOOQ Professional, and jOOQ Enterprise licenses, you may now purchase any of the following subscriptions:

• A new monthly subscription for short-running tasks, such as DB migrations
• The existing yearly subscription for default use-cases
• A new major release perpetual license for long-running jOOQ 3.x integrations with little need for upgrades

We would like to thank our customers who have been giving us great feedback on our licensing model, and to those of you who have been eagerly waiting for the perpetual license.

Can’t wait? Download your copy of jOOQ now

Are you an existing customer of the jOOQ yearly subscription interested in a switch to other terms? We’ll offer you a 50% refund discount on your existing yearly subscription, should you choose to switch to the perpetual license by the end of April.

Contact sales for a tailor-made license migration discount.

Internet Explorer 8 support on our website

No one loves the old Internet Explorer versions, agreed, but that is not a reason not to support them. We’ve finally re-worked our manual and the rest of our website to also support Internet Explorer 8. Jumping on the HTML5 train was done prematurely, which is why many of our customers in the banking sector who cannot upgrade, or use Firefox, had to go through hassles to read the jOOQ manual.

We would like to apologise for all the inconvience this has introduced to some of you! If you encounter any issues with our website, please drop us a note, and we’ll fix it immediately.

Community Zone – Another great article by Petri Kainulainen

It’s hard to believe, but Petri Kainulainen (author of a variety of books and tutorials on Spring) has done it again! And he did it even better than before. We’re very proud to present to you part 3 of his great jOOQ / Spring tutorial. This time:

• Using jOOQ with Spring: CRUD

CRUD is a very important part of your application, and getting it right is essential to save time and money on your development efforts. jOOQ implements an ActiveRecord-like pattern, similar to Ruby’s ActiveRecords. In his article, Petri shows how to tie these ActiveRecords to Spring’s Repository pattern. Convince yourselves! And while you’re at it, don’t miss Petri’s other two tutorials:

• Using jOOQ with Spring: Configuration
• Using jOOQ with Spring: Code Generation

SQL Zone – Window Functions – A Must-Have Tool

There is SQL before window functions and SQL after window functions. If you’re fortunate enough to use a commercial database, or PostgreSQL, then you get to enjoy the merits of one of the greatest SQL features that have ever been standardised (into SQL:2003).

We often blog about window functions, and when we go to conferences to talk about jOOQ or about SQL, window functions are all over our slides.

CUME_DIST()

In this blog post, we show you the great CUME_DIST() function, which is essentially the same as the ROW_NUMBER() divided by the amount of rows. So, if you ever need to indicate the position of your row within the whole result set as a percentage, CUME_DIST() is your weapon of choice.

LEAD() and LAG()

Just yesterday, we were able to solve a very fun data problem for our friends from FanPictor, a neighbouring startup from our offices. In an Excel export of their stadium data (see above), they wanted to group blocks of similar colours and create delimiters at the beginning and at the end of each block. Essentially, they wanted to create instructions like “The next five seats are red, the next 2 seats are white, the next 10 seats are red”. This can be done very easily using the awesome LEAD() and LAG() functions.

Upcoming Events

After a great JUG Saxony Day in Dresden and an awesome Java/Scala/jOOQ/SQL talk at VSUG in Vienna, we’re looking forward to a couple of great conferences in May / June.

Have you missed any of our previous jOOQ talks? Soon you’ll get another chance to hear us talk about jOOQ or SQL in general in any of these upcoming events:

• May 14 – 16, 2014: Geecon in Kraków (English, about jOOQ)
• May, 2014: JUGS in Berne (German, about SQL)
• June 9 – 11, 2014: 33rd Degree in Kraków (English, about jOOQ)
• June 12 – 13, 2014: Geekout in Tallinn (English, about jOOQ)

Stay informed about 2014 events on www.jooq.org/news.