by Ember Crooks | May 2, 2023 | Featured, mysql, sql
My article on DB2 Basics: Quotation Marks has 962 views so far this year, so I thought it might be time to write a similar article on using quotation marks with MySQL. General quotation marks For the most part, you can use single and double quotation marks...
by Ember Crooks | Apr 25, 2023 | DB2, Featured, mysql, performance, scaling
“Relational databases don’t scale!”. This is the claim that database experts have heard over and over again, and yet we spend our careers scaling databases. I immediately translate this in my head to either “I threw hardware at the problem and...
by Ember Crooks | Apr 18, 2023 | DB2, Ember's Data Science Journey, Featured, mysql
About 18 months ago, I decided that it was time to look for my next job. I had only been at my employer at the time for about 2 years, and had helped them through a couple of tough things they had hired me for.… Read the rest
by Ember Crooks | Apr 11, 2023 | DB2, Db2vsMySQL, Featured, mysql
I’m going to walk through the basic creation of auto-incrementing integer columns in MySQL and Db2 and point out some differences and similarities. Functionality Every relational database I have worked with has had a functionality for generating column values....
by Ember Crooks | Feb 28, 2023 | DB2, Featured, mysql, RDBMS, rdbms concepts
When I started working as a DBA in 2001, the relational database management system choices were more limited and the choice itself was often left up to a system architect. Rarely did developers have a say, and even DBAs only had a say in whether they could support it...
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