SQL
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Software Development
An entity modelling strategy for scaling optimistic locking
Introduction Application-level repeatable reads are suitable for preventing lost updates in web conversations. Enabling entity-level optimistic locking is fairly easy.…
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Core Java
Don’t Miss out on Writing Java 8 SQL One-Liners with jOOλ or jOOQ
More and more people are catching up with the latest update to our platform by adopting functional programming also for…
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Core Java
Asynchronous SQL Execution with jOOQ and Java 8’s CompletableFuture
Reactive programming is the new buzzword, which essentially just means asynchronous programming or messaging. Fact is that functional syntax greatly…
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Software Development
Awesome SQL Trick: Constraints on Views
CHECK constraints are already pretty great when you want to sanitize your data. But there are some limitations to CHECK…
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Software Development
A Wonderful SQL Feature: Quantified Comparison Predicates (ANY, ALL)
Have you ever wondered about the use-case behind SQL’s ANY (also: SOME) and ALL keywords? You have probably not yet…
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Software Development
All You Ever Need to Know About Recursive SQL
Oracle SYNONYMs are a great feature. You can implement all sorts of backwards-compatibility tweaks simply by creating SYNONYMs in your…
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Software Development
SQL Tip of the Day: Be Wary of SELECT COUNT(*)
Recently, I’ve encountered this sort of query all over the place at a customer site: …
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Software Development
Are You Using SQL PIVOT Yet? You Should!
Every once in a while, we run into these rare SQL issues where we’d like to do something that seems…
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Enterprise Java
Tracing SQL statements in JBoss AS 7 using a custom logging handler
Using an ORM to abstract from your specific database and to let it create and issue all the SQL statements…
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