For those who have studied ERD-lore, it's not new that a relational database is very much like a graph. But it has taken SQL, more than 30 years since it became a standard and almost half a century since its inception to incorporate construct that will allow a DataBase to be treated as aGraph, DBaaG. This is surprising given that SQL was developed as language for relational databases which are modeled using ER diagrams. Better late than never. SQL/PGQ has arrived as 16th part of SQL:2023.| Walking with the Elephants
Unlike inheritance-based partitioning, declarative partitioning introduced in PostgreSQL 10 leaves nothing to infer about how the data is divided into partitions. PostgreSQL 11's query optimizer is gearing up to take advantage of this "no-inference" representation. The first one that got committed was basic partition-wise join.| Walking with the Elephants
PostgreSQL 10 is full with a lot of big, new and exciting features. Declarative partitioning is one of those. It is something users have wanted for years. During PGCon 2017, it was a hot topic of discussion. People wanted to know more about the feature, and were eager to try it out. The un-conference and conference session on partitioning attracted a large crowd. One of the frequently asked questions centred on whether a user can change partition bounds of an existing partition. This bears ex...| Walking with the Elephants
MariaDB 11.8 LTS open-source RDBMS is out, featuring full MariaDB Vector support, faster backups, improved replication, and more.| Linuxiac
Learn the basics of Python databases and how to use them. Explore the different types , how to connect to them, and how to query them.| Developer.com
Need to connect to your RDBMS with JDBC and don’t have the JDBC connection URL or driver name at hand? No problem, just look up your RDBMS below: // BigQuery driver = “com.simba.googleb…| Java, SQL and jOOQ.