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jOOQ, a Love Story
… according to a jOOQ user on Twitter: jOOQ, a love story Let’s hope this relationship will last for a very long time! Cheers, the jOOQ team.Filed under: jooq-in-use Tagged: java, jooq, Love Story,...
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Add LATERAL Joins or CROSS APPLY to Your SQL Tool Chain
The T-SQL dialect has known the powerful CROSS APPLY and OUTER APPLY JOIN syntaxes for ages. The SQL:1999 standard had introduced almost equivalent “lateral derived tables”, which are finally supported...
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MongoDB “Lightning Fast Aggregation” Challenged with Oracle
What does “Scale” even mean in the context of databases? When talking about scaling, people have jumped to the vendor-induced conclusion that: SQL doesn’t scale NoSQL scales It is very obvious that...
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SQL and NoSQL are Really Just Two Sides of the Same Coin
In a recent debate about NoSQL vs. SQL on Hackernews, I was made aware of a quite amusing paper by Erik Meijer and Gavin Bierman. Remember, Erik Meijer has brought LINQ to the .NET universe, a...
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A Bit of SQL History
SQL has been around for a while. Just recently, I’ve read this refreshing article about Codd’s Relational Vision – Has NoSQL Come Full Circle? SQL is one of those awesome technologies that was invented...
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MyBatis’ Alternative Transaction Management
On the jOOQ user group, we’re often being asked how to perform transaction management with jOOQ. And we have an easy answer ready: You don’t do that with jOOQ. You choose your favourite transaction...
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Ecto a Slick Query DSL for the Elixir Language
Elixir? What on earth is Elixir? It is a programming language that somewhat reminds me of Ruby. Here is some example Elixir code: defmodule Hello do IO.puts "Defining the function world" def world do...
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The Great SQL Implementation Comparison Page
Fortunately, we have SQL standards. Or do we? It’s a well-known secret (or cynical joke) that the SQL standard is yet another SQL dialect among peers. Standards by xkcd On this blog, we have pointed...
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MySQL Bad Idea #666
MySQL… We’ve blogged about MySQL before. Many times. We’ve shown bad ideas implemented in MySQL here: MySQL Bad Idea #384 MySQL Bad Idea #573 But this beats everything. Check out this Stack Overflow...
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jOOQ Newsletter: December 30, 2013. Happy New Year!
subscribe to the newsletter here Tweet of the Day We would like to contribute this new section of the newsletter to our followers, users, and customers. Here’s Andy Van Den Heuvel, who appreciates...
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Typesafe’s Slick is Not About SQL
We have stumbled upon an interesting thread on the Typesafe SLICK user group where Slick was compared to jOOQ. In that thread, Christopher Vogt has made a couple of interesting statements. But let us...
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Why Your Boring Data Will Outlast Your Sexy New Technology
So you’re playing around with all those sexy new technologies, enjoying yourself, getting inspiration from state-of-the-art closure / lambda / monads and other concepts-du-jour… Now that I have your...
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Why Did SQLJ Die?
Every now and then, SQLJ pops up somewhere, mostly in a very dusty/enterprisey or in an academic context. If you give SQLJ some thought, though, it isn’t such a bad idea. It is: An ANSI and ISO...
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The SQL Language’s Most Missing Feature
But SQL is also awesome in many ways. We can write out the most complex truths and facts and have the database tell us the answer in no time. But the SQL language is arguably the most beautiful...
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The DBMS of the Year 2013
We have recently blogged about the DB-Engines Ranking and how MongoDB was the only NoSQL store to make it into that ranking’s top 10. Today, this marketing platform offered by solid IT has announced...
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Lesser-Known SQL Features: DEFAULT VALUES
A lesser-known SQL feature is the DEFAULT keyword, which can be used in INSERT and UPDATE statements. Consider the following table, created using standard SQL syntax: CREATE TABLE timestamps ( id...
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Advanced Java Trickery for Typesafe Query DSLs
When browsing Hacker News, I recently stumbled upon Benji Weber’s most interesting attempt at creating typesafe database interaction with Java 8. Benji created a typesafe query DSL somewhat similar to...
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What you Didn’t Know About JDBC Batch
In our previous blog post “10 Common Mistakes Java Developers Make When Writing SQL“, we have made a point about batching being important when inserting large data sets. In most databases and with most...
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jOOQ Newsletter: January 22, 2014
Subscribe to the newsletter here Tweet of the Day We are contributing this new section of the newsletter to our followers, users, and customers. Here are: Jose M. Arranz who has had plans to build...
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Introducing CQLC – a Query DSL for Cassandra’s CQL in Go, Inspired by jOOQ
This morning, we’ve had very nice feedback about our work on the jOOQ User Group by Ben Hood, who has been a long-time jOOQ user and ideas/bug report contributor. He has taken inspiration from our...
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