by Ember Crooks | May 30, 2023 | DB2, Db2vsMySQL, Featured, mysql
With a year of fairly extensive MySQL experience under my belt, and uncertainty as to which exciting direction my career will take me next, I wanted to take a moment to write about some of the differences between Db2 and MySQL at a fairly high level.… Read the...
by Michael Krafick | May 23, 2023 | DB2, Education and Skills, Experiments, Featured, Guest Blogs, performance
Database performance is heavily influenced by data volume and cardinality (or how unique that data may be). It’s interesting to watch the look on someone’s face when this concept clicks. There is a look of understanding from a developer when she can extrapolate why...
by Ember Crooks | May 10, 2023 | Featured
It’s amazing that I’ve had a 22-year career in tech, and until last week, I had never been laid off. Last week, I was a victim of the 20% layoffs at Shopify. Along with me came very talented people with years of experience there.… Read the rest
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
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