PostgreSQL

Managing SQL Drift: Ensuring Stability in Database Transitions

SQL drift is a significant challenge that occurs when SQL statements from an existing system produce unexpected results after migration to a new environment or system. These issues manifest in several critical ways: SQL statements may generate new execution errors, experience significant performance degradation, or yield differences in data integrity.

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Digital Tech Trek Digest [#Issue 2024.12]

Falsehoods programmers believe about time zones If I told you there was a timezone 30 minutes past the hour, would you believe me? In a small section of Western Australia, there is.

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Digital Tech Trek Digest [#Issue 2024.09]

As an entrepreneur, pricing is an important consideration in any evaluation, development, and customer testing. In How To Price A SaaS Product , we see different pricing strategies, cost-based pricing, competitor-based pricing, penetration pricing, value-based pricing, freemium pricing.

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Digital Tech Trek Digest [#Issue 2024.08]

The One Billion Row Challenge Shows That Java Can Process a One Billion Rows File in Two Seconds Well, it’s way under 2 seconds for the 1brc . The published results are in, and if you’re good, you can read 1 billion data points of weather data and analyze it.

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Digital Tech Trek Digest [#Issue 2024.02]

Indie Newsletter Tool Generates $15,000 a Month There are so many different email newsletter sites you could wonder if there is market saturation. MailChimp , Mailgun , ConvertKit , Sendgrid (now part of Twilio it seems), Moosend and Mailersend come to mind.

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AWS RDS Aurora wish list

I’ve had this list on a post-it note on my monitor for all of 2022. I figured it was time to write it down, and reuse the space. In summary, AWS suffers from the same problem that almost every other product does.

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SQL, ANSI Standards, PostgreSQL and MySQL

I have recently been working with the Donors Choose Open Data Set which happens to be in PostgreSQL. Easy enough to install and load the data in PostgreSQL, however as I live and breath MySQL, lets load the data into MySQL.

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