I really like the "printer friendly" versions so I can "print" articles to PDF for later reference. That way, I can store articles in a directory of my own structure...

When I interview people, the main thing I look for is an aptitude for learning and applying. Throughout my career, I only came prepared with a few skills absolutely required...

I'm also one of the old-timers who got a Computer Science degree in the 1980s. I started programming on green screens in FORTRAN-77 on PDP-11 minicomputers, learned IBM 360 Assembler...

• This reply was modified 3 months, 2 weeks ago by  Aaron N. Cutshall.

Yep, that's what I was thinking about. Thanks for clarifying! 🙂

I've had my head embedded in Postgres for the last few years. It's not surprising something got pushed out in...

• This reply was modified 10 months ago by  Aaron N. Cutshall.

In times past, using varchar without a length defaulted to 30 characters. Did that change?

I learned something new today about window functions! Nice!! 🙂

From one perspective, it really doesn't matter which method you choose as long as you're consistent. However, if you choose pluralism, it becomes difficult to maintain consistency.

For example, I have...

That's a good point and worth pursuing.

I just upgraded to the latest version and it has the same functionality. I thought perhaps it had to do with an automatic switch to the results pane, but that...

Nice article! I have been lucky enough to have visited 8 of those cities. I look forward to expanding my list!

Redshift is based on an earlier version of Postgres. It was modified to be a columnar database, but it doesn't have many of nice features and functions that were added...

Glad to see that I'm not alone in my confusion here! None of the answers fit the actual situation. As I expected, I got a result set from each table.

As Eric Russell pointed out back in 2016, I've used a hybrid approach before where the data is written to a file for performance and in case the server crashed,...

Eric,

In you situation, your essentially extracted the customer-centric data into a single document per customer then used a document database for that very purpose. Good use there considering the data...

• This reply was modified 3 years, 5 months ago by  Aaron N. Cutshall.

I think that NoSQL environments have their use cases and shine well in those. I think the biggest problem is when we try to use NoSQL tools to replace RDBMS...